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

Description: Report on a panel presentation in which options to maintain the solvency of Social Security are discussed.

Description: An article from The Actuary that discusses the new non-forfeiture value. The secondary market for life insurance is redefining the way policies are valued. Paradign shifts don't occur overnight. Yet, somewhere along the line, there comes a convergence of factors that makes significant change inevitable. With regard to the secondary market for life insurance, this tipping point is already in the rear-view mirror.

Description: Provides background on the Brazilian insurance authority's ban of the group life rider benefit for Total and Permanent Disability due to illness, TPD. Then discusses alternative benefits that could be offered as replacements.

Description: This article presents highlights from a Roundtable Discussion held at the 2008 Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance - NASI. Some issues discussed are the results of the SOA 2007 Survey on the Risks and Process of Retirement, the phases of retirement and the changes during retirement as a function of changing health and capability, age, changing family status and employment status.

Description: The article describes Carol Proffer's career as an actuary beginning in an insurance company to her role in investment consulting where she helps general partners raise private equity, venture capital and real estate funds.

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: Using thoughtleading as a business development strategy. Tying revenue to media presence and quantiying the ROI.

Description: This is an article about J. Bradley Murray, of Smart Tech Actuarial Consultants STAC, who provides actuarial and technology services to both the insurance companies who are actuaries' traditional marketplace, and to other kinds of businesses with non-traditional needs.