Description: This article is a general discussion about earnings rates and toll charges and how to compute them.

Description: This article is a general discussion about prior correction procedures for failed life insurance contracts and the new IRS procedure for remediation.

Description: This article discusses the risks of retirement and how those risks impact attaining a secure retirement in a defined contribution world.

Description: The paper provides information on the background, construction, and analysis of a new credit disability table, and then offers suggestions for the development of a valuation table.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #2 by SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: Essay of using microeconomics and Embedded Value concepts to evaluate direct marketing programs.

Description: This is the third and final installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs. The article illustrates how traditional asset share calculations are not appropriate in this case.

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.

Description: In September 2017, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) issued the “C-ROSS Phase II project construction plan”, planned to be used across three years’ time, by perfecting the regulations, improving the operational mechanism and strengthening the regulatory cooperation.

Description: An exploration of drivers, cohorts and dynamics for policyholder behavior for VA and FIA based on industry experience data, including changes in recent years and the emergence of long-term data in key areas. We will also discuss critical elements to developing a sustainable and coherent framework to translate this complex experience data into assumption models.