Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: Article is about my experience and emergence in the long term care industry. It highlights my prior experiences and my favorite things to work on.

Description: A discuss of notice and consent requirements for employer-owned life insurance policies and the IRS rules again on an annuity-LTC combination product.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) retained Milliman, Inc. (Milliman) to conduct a research project related to product innovation. This report explores key risks and considerations for product innovation using the long-term care insurance (LTC, LTCI) industry as a case study. We identify how actuaries of all backgrounds can apply the lessons learned, and challenges overcome, by the LTCI industry to improve future innovation, product development and risk management.

Description: Using the Delphi method, this study explores the opinions of various Long-Term Care experts and stakeholders on a wide range of LTC financing issues and potential solutions.

Description: This is a research project discussing on the needs and opportunities of the older age market to be used in the development and distribution of products that will protect future retirees from financial risk.

Description: At this engaging professionalism webcast, be prepared to reflect on the values of the actuarial profession and in particular the actuarial standards of practice related to long-term care.

Description: The risk/delivery/protection framework was first presented to participants in the SOA's Long-Term Care Think Tank seminar in a survey. That survey was designed to get participant opinions on how the system might evolve over the next five to 10 years. The results of the survey are summarized in the article.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: This webcast offers “must know” information and differing perspectives on key IRS procedures that can be utilized by insurance companies to address complex tax issues and situations.