Description: Provides information on the 3 incoming Council members.

Description: Purchase Accounting for Insurance Business Combination under China-GAAP from an Actuarial Perspective – Part II

Description: International Section’s second networking event in New York City! The intimate gathering of roughly 25 actuaries.

Description: Reprinted from Impact Insurance Facility blog as part of the International Labour Organisation.

Description: This article discusses the LTC Commission reports and the lack of a funding solution.

Description: Many ERM programs fail to include an active step of actual risk treatment and are therefore rightfully characterized as Entertainment Systems. Real ERM will use risk assessment to drive decisions about risk acceptance and risk mitigation. Entertainment systems use risk assessment to create reports and to hold discussions. No actions are taken often because ERM is not empowered to do anything.

Description: This article is an opinion piece on the value of Sections to the Society of Actuaries. In particular, the Smaller Insurance Company Sections supports its members by sponsoring meeting sessions, developing webcasts, actively supporting research and promoting a sense of community and collaboration.

Description: This article stresses the importance of portraying a professional image in the workplace.

Description: How to get more out of your employees by monitoring their 'Tensions'. The employee's tensions may be either too high Stress or too low Apathy. This article tells you what to do in either case.