Description: An economics professor and a health care consumer advocate weigh in on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including implementation issues, directions for the future and what role actuaries shoudl take.

Description: Tools that should be in place to support a validation program and covers a case study of a validation of an Actuarial Guideline 43 (AG43) model.

Description: Chairperson's corner.

Description: To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it’s important to understand five key principles of influence. In this four-part series, I’ll be covering these five principles that are based on human psychology and behavior. Let’s look at the first two now.

Description: The author describes his recent experience taking in only water and vegetable juice for 2 days and translating his lessons to actuarial practice.

Description: Managing Change by Claire Marie Birchill from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2002, Issue No. 8.

Description: Based on interviews with C-level executives, this report offers insights on the role and actions of the global insurance industry in addressing climate change

Description: Principle #4: People make buying decisions based on emotion and justify these decisions with logic. To be influential, we need to take into account both logic and emotion. Of the two, emotion is a much more powerful motivating force. Unfortunately, too many people ignore the emotional component and focus solely on logic - neglecting what compels people to buy.

Description: The future holds many changes. We've already dealt with major changes over the last few decades. This article goes through tips to embrace change effectively.

Description: Business leadership lessons from non-business leaders: interpersonal skills and people management