Description: Remain a competitor in health insurance with value, knowing the competition, and using external experts Issue No. 37.

Description: Medicaid and the ACA

Description: Look into history of long-term care insurance industry to understand the forces that shaped current industry's position and to identify new directions.

Description: Editorial discussing the transition of the newsletter's editors.

Description: In a Q&A format, two actuaries talk about the challenges for smaller companies in moving to a PBR world.

Description: This article on insurance regulation discusses the highlights of the Optional Federal Charter OFC – current developments, its opponents and proponents, accounting implications, and implications for small insurers.

Description: The article is based on a study of causes of insolvency and decisions made by management, regulators, and policyholders over the life cycle of the insolvency.

Description: Reviews anecdotal evidence that the current shift to passive investing is an indication that investors are irrationally ignoring market risk.

Description: 2013 Investment Contest challenges section members to assemble an asset portfolio which will prevail in one of three risk/return metrics.

Description: If you’ve been reading my columns for a while, you have no doubt recognized that I tend to be consis- tently optimistic when it comes to the insurance contracts project meeting deadlines. I am constantly disappointed as the International Accounting Standards Board IASB and Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB fail to meet their own deadlines for producing exposure drafts or other papers. But this time is different.