Description: Discussion of the impact of the ACA on RBS and required surplus for a health plan

Description: Part Two of a 3 part discussion of: Social Security System for the 21st Century. This part outlines some of the key characteristics of the viable social security system of the 21st century.

Description: This article explores promising changes to Canada’s retirement system that are necessary to ensure it’s available now and for the next generation.

Description: Understanding U.S. defined-benefit plan annual funding notice definitions and what they are meant to represent is a key to understanding how “healthy” or “unhealthy” a pension plan is. This article offers a description of several types of funded status measurements and their applications under the rules mandated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to fund private employer-sponsored defined-benefit pension plans.

Description: Up until recent past, the artificial intelligence portion of data science was looked upon cautiously due to its history of booms and flops . In the latest stream of events, major improvements have taken place in this field and now deep learning, the new leading front for Artificial Intelligence, presents a promising prospect for overcoming problems of big data.

Description: A discussion of where insurance companies and their products fit in the retirement asset market and trends over the past few decades. Some historical data on the insurance companies' share of retirement assets is included.

Description: Revenue Procedure 2001-42 Rev. Proc. 2001-42, established a permanent avenue for companies to correct inadvertent modified endowment contracts, or MECs. This article discusses this new Procedure.

Description: Discussion of recent Society of Actuaries sponsored research.

Description: Summary of 2017 Milliman broad- based survey on term life insurance, providing benchmarking for carriers active in the term life market.

Description: An Interview with John Cutler and An Enhanced Social Security Annuity