Description: This article examines the impact of a changing smoking rate on population-level mortality improvement and the importance of taking this driver into account.

Description: Summary of 2017 Milliman broad- based survey on term life insurance, providing benchmarking for carriers active in the term life market.

Description: Discussion of a Reinsurance Arbitration Survey covering the period 1998–2001 Also a discussion of the shrinking number of life reinsurance companies in the USA

Description: In today’s competitive environment, there is an increasing focus on the process of selecting life reinsurers, largely as a result of two industry trends, namely consolidation and the amount of reinsurance ceded.

Description: Feature article discussing that as financial markets have rumbled and cession rates have fallen, life reinsurers have been focused on pricing stability.

Description: Charitable activities of a retired actuary--planting fruit trees in developing countries to feed people, create jobs and benefit the environment

Description: This paper examines the use of alternative investments for pension funds in the Netherlands facing the three requirements of minimum funding, solvency, and continuity. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: The future holds many changes. We've already dealt with major changes over the last few decades. This article goes through tips to embrace change effectively.

Description: A reflection on the need/desire for one right answer when there isn't one

Description: Performance measurement is not the primary purpose of either GAAP or statutory accounting. This article discusses alternative methods of reporting used by life insurance companies to better measure financial performance.