Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved a very new actuarial manager trying to deal with a disruptive employee.

Description: How companies with limited resources can put controls into place for their actuarial processes.

Description: Based on April webinar, develops nine guidelines for setting assumptions.

Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: July 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.

Description: An article describing a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving defined benefit pension plan funding.

Description: This article shows readers' responses to a case study presented in the April 2010 issue of Stepping Stone. The part time in house actuary for a defined benefits pension plan feels the plan is under funded and recommends corrective action. The needed corrections are not felt needed by senior management.

Description: A review of the classic business book Built to Last, originally published in 1994. Looking at the past twenty years -- how have the BTL companies done? How have their comparison companies fared? Read the review and find out!