Description: Short insights on different innovation and entrepreneurial topics. These come from the Entrepreneurial & Innovation Section's e-bulletin, Innovation Insights.

Description: The authors take up two questions: • How do I create my Personal Development Plan? • How will the Competency Framework tool help me design my future?

Description: Discussion of the increased use of reinsurance in the life insurance industry, including the causes and implications

Description: Discussion of potential volatility to non-participating long-duration traditional contract reserves under US GAAP targeted improvements to accounting for long-duration insurance contracts. Discusses the impact of revising assumptions as well as interaction of revising assumptions with changes to discount rates.

Description: Overview of plans designed to cover out-of-pocket medical costs as a supplement to major medical coverage.

Description: Can Direct-to-Provider Contracting Achieve Value-Based Care for Employer-Sponsored Plans? Direct-to-provider contracting is a strategy in which a self-insured entity negotiates a contract directly with a provider of healthcare services rather than through a third-party administrator (TPA), often with the goal of driving value-based care. This article discusses the considerations for employers and providers with direct-to-provider contracting.

Description: This article explores the disruptive applications of blockchain, an emerging technology, and its impact on the pharmacy benefit space, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM).

Description: Underwriting and Risk Classification by Chris Cook and Vera Dolan from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15.

Description: Vision and objectives and projects for the International Section.

Description: Discussion of the ways carriers can deliver a direct to consumer offering in a way that benefits, rather than alienates, the advisor channel.