Description: An interview with Sheryl Flum, chief, Branch 4, IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Financial Institutions and Products) at the Internal Revenue Service, regarding her role at the IRS and current tax issues facing the life insurance industry.

Description: Editorial for the December 2012/January 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing SOA’s Board of Directors’ practices.

Description: The authors provide background on the Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA) designation and detail its success since implementation.

Description: An open letter to the Taxation Section of the Society of Actuaries from the newsletter editor, Kristin Norberg.

Description: The Society of Actuaries is making a commitment to focus on diversity and inclusion in the profession, including the creation of a standing SOA Inclusion and Diversity Committee.

Description: We can learn a lot about actuarial exams but they don't really teach us about the business world and how to operate in it.

Description: Highlights of Actuary of the Future Section Council accomplishments and activities in the past year.

Description: An essay discussing universal access to high quality, low cost health care.

Description: Essay stating Americans need to invent, implement, and evaluate sustainable health care policies, divert cash-flow streams away from projects which feed the beast and focus on projects and policies which enhance value. It will require a combination of thoughtful, coordinated policies and a change in our cultural expectations of infinite resources and unlimited choice.

Description: This article discusses a good way for insurance companies to calibrate economic capital (tail risk level) that is consistent with the market opinion on its risk. It also establishes a bridge between a risk neutral evaluation and a real world evaluation.