Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on Life Settlements, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys Life Settlements Survey Subcommittee. The responses from two separate surveys, one to direct writers and the other to reinsurers, have been combined into this single report. Survey question topics include company characteristics, market participation, market management, and consequences to the Industry.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2004, Issue No. 47.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, Issue No. 55, May 2007.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries.

Description: So, is there an obesity epidemic? There certainly is strong evidence that obesity rates are rapidly rising. Since 1985 the CDC has been collecting data from the states through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS. is shown in this chart.

Description: The interactive visuals provided a compelling demonstration for Allstate's leadership team to see the effects of changes to Allstate's risk profile.

Description: The authors introduce an alternative to Tail Contribution Analysis TCA for analyzing business segments and strategies called Economic Profit Analysis EPA. They discuss EPA’s key feature, “volatility replication,” an intuitively appealing process of building investor expectations and capital market information into the risk-and-return measurements used to evaluate strategic decisions. Finally, they illustrate the benefit of using EPA in overcoming the problems of TCA and thereby providing concise reliable information for business decision making.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE) has developed and conducted inter-company expense experience studies annually since 2001. This report documents the results of the Committee’s fourth expense study – the 2004 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This is the 2004 credit disability study report compiled by the Credit Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries in July, 2005. The study was undertaken to update the basis for unearned premium reserves for single premium credit disability insurance.