Description: Smaller Insurance Company Section Sessions at the Annual Meeting, Smaller Insurance Company Section Webinars on PBR and Financial Reporting Issues, and a note about the PBR Corner on the Smaller Insurance Company Section Website.

Description: A Description of the Sessions sponsored by the Smaller Insurance Company Section at the 2014 Valuation Actuary Symposium

Description: Based upon Salim Ismael's keynote address at the SOA Annual meeting in Austin as well as his book Exponential Organizations, this article discusses the disruptive power of two significant trends: the transformative power of new, scalable technology, and the generational shifts caused by Boomers leaving the workforce and Millennials' rise to prominence.

Description: Provides a summary of the Small Talk Newsletter for Fall 2016. Also included are thoughts on the need for continuing education and involvement in the industry.

Description: Read the March 2017 issue of Small Talk published by Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information on trends that impact sections and activities.

Description: This article describes how actuaries can get involved in research being conducted by the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Feature article discussing how to do a model update.

Description: This article provided a 1998 update of Mutual Insurance Holding Companies. Subjects covered included state-by-status enabling status, policyholder rights under an MIHC, advantages, and criticisms.

Description: This article discusses how small insurance companies can get into the complex equity indexed market by using alliances wherein there is one primary company and one or more secondary companies. The primary company would perform all of the functions for itself and some of the functions for the secondary companies. The companies pool assets to reach critical mass.

Description: This article is the testimony of the author to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance expressing his views about a proposed law to allow a domestic mutual life insurer to reorganize as a stock company that is owned by a mutual holding company.