Description: Response to Life Insurance 2020 Foresight – A Call for Essays. An essay stating the author’s vision for the future of the life insurance sector. Focus is on the retirement savings need in the future both in the private individual sector and in the public sector.

Description: This paper assesses the extent to which equity investors were fooled by pension accounting. Simulations show that a failure to differentiate between core and pension earnings induces large valuation errors for many firms, although this pension effect did not materially contribute to aggregate overvaluation before 2000. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: Surplus and the ACA

Description: Affordable Care Act and Payment Reform

Description: ACA Impact on Employers

Description: Discusses the outcome of AOF council Face-to-Face meeting, and direction for the coming year.

Description: Possible usage of tools that can automate time consuming processes, and lead to a different team structure and organization for predictive analytics team.

Description: Responsibilities Of The Actuary For Communicating Sarbanes-Oxley Control in accordance With Actuarial Standards of Practice

Description: Discusses some of the financial implications of the recently issued IASB Discussion Paper on Insurance Contracts which presents the preliminary view that GAAP insurance liabilities should be valued at current exit value.