Description: Discusses key issues to improve the retirement system in the U.S. in a primarily defined contribution environment. Focuses on age at retirement, how people retire, and covering risks including disability and longevity risk. Some ideas are feasible within current environment and some require policy change.

Description: Innovative products and business processes often come from where you least expect them. This article explores the characteristics of disruptive innovations and provides a framework for identifying and creating disruption in an existing business.

Description: 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Reinsurance Conference. This one day industry meeting hosting delegates from North America and beyond will be held in Toronto on April 13, 2016 under the theme "ReDefining Leadership".

Description: As an ongoing feature in Risk Management, we will provide recent publications we find noteworthy to our readers.

Description: The World Bank visited Argentina with the objective of starting technical assistance to the insurance regulatory body Superintendencia de Seguros de la Nación (SSN).

Description: Decomposes guaranteed minimum maturity benefit option into a basket of components, and values each component with both a Black-Scholes model and a regime-switching GARCH model. Performs sensitivity analysis on dynamic lapse assumption.

Description: Oliver Wyman surveyed the life insurance industry in 2Q 2018 on emerging life PBR practices. Key takeaways and a deeper dive on select practices are provided.

Description: The winner's curse, applied to Affordable Care Act plan pricing.