Description: Discusses the different forms of guarantees that have been used in life insurance, and the various means of analyzing and establishing financial support to assure that these promises can be met.

Description: Discusses the purpose, goals, makeup, and initial accomplishments of the Emerging Issues Advisory Group, EIAG.

Description: This article focuses on marketing opportunities and the impact of new international accounting standards on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. The author presents an update on these subjects from interviews with speakers at a session at the recent annual meeting.

Description: Defines and discusses operational risk as it exists in every industry, especially as it exists in the financial services industry.

Description: Proposes new approaches to long–term care insurance products and marketing.

Description: This is an article about how our business environment has changed and how actuaries must evolve in order to retain their value to employers.

Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: Like Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense," we actuaries sometimes see things that others can't. As Social Security reform moves through Congress, and as the topic gets hashed out in the editorial pages of our daily newspapers, many of us actuaries find ourselves muttering over our morning coffee about the ignorance of the non-actuarial community. In fact, just this morning I overheard one such actuary at my local coffee shop. He seemed agitated, as he chugged down his second venti latte. The Wall Street Journal's editorial page trembled in his hands. From The Actuary Magazine February 2005

Description: February/March 2009 Volume 6 Issue 1 Bi-Monthly membership benefit magazine

Description: This is a discussion about an ongoing dialogue on a model of personal investing known as the Life–Cycle Model of Investing and Saving. To gain additional insight into the model and its implications for retirement planning, the SOA's Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks CPRNR recently gathered a panel of leading experts for a round table discussion on the model with the hope of providing a lively forum to exchange ideas.