Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) commissioned Milliman to develop this report to provide health care stakeholders—patients, payers, policymakers and actuaries—with a comprehensive description of DPC as well as an objective actuarial evaluation of certain claims made about the DPC model of care.

Description: This article explores the possibility of using innovations from the financial markets to reduce some portion of the LTC risk and thus encourage the growth of the product.

Description: Essay stating accessibility, affordability and efficiency are the key to success in the future of healthcare.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues related to the more direct involvement of actuaries on the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: Feature article provides a glimpse into recent changes to various standards of care owed to customers that will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the products and services offered by many financial institutions.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting has a panel of investment experts that answer investment-related questions from the audience including investment policy for long term care insurance, asset allocation and derivatives. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: The article offers a more nuanced approach to caregiving as the population ages, suggesting our current focus on planning leaves out most people. Instead find solutions for non-planners!

Description: Read the May 2019 edition of NewsDirect published by the Marketing and Distribution Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article discusses some 'standard' methods of foreign expansions. Strategic decisions for expansion in foreign countries require more than qualitative discussions about foreign expansion. It requires hard numbers on the benefits of such strategic expansion plans and is illustrated here with the example of MetLife's 2002 purchase of Ahisa [Aseguradora Hidalgo]. With that purchase, more than 70% of the Mexican insurance market is in the hand of foreign companies.

Description: Discusses the financial-guarantee insurance industry, including: [1] a brief history, [2] types of coverage offered, [3] pricing, reserving, and equity considerations, and [4] applicable regulation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.