Description: Department column featuring an interview with Sim Segal.

Description: Feature article that makes the point that an MBA is needed in addition to an FSA.

Description: Department column explaining the SOA’s new e-Learning system.

Description: This article summarizes statutory reporting and the Pinciple-Based Initiative that the Academy, the industry and the regulators have been working on in the U.S. It addresses whether a principles-based approach will simplify reporting regulations and make them more flexible.

Description: This article highlights the activities of the SOA and its newest retirement issues report, 'The Phases of Retirement and Planning for the Unexpected.' It describes the three separate phases or stages of retirement.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: Part II of a panel discussion on the state of life reinsurance. The article discusses alternatives to reinsurance such as securitization, the nature of changes in reinsurance from quota share to excess, the role of reinsurance in risk management and the future direction of the relationship between ceding companies and reinsurers.

Description: Discusses bancassurance in the United States, after providing a brief background about it in Europe.

Description: Discusses why it is so important for actuaries to actively monitor evolving issues with taxation of life insurance companies and products, and how to monitor the issues and get involved with the process.

Description: This article discusses that while life style funds make sense for some, a growing minority of individuals successfully make their own investment decisions. It points out that these options should be kept available and that if proper education is provided the informed investor population would grow.