Description: Disease management [DM] is a health care intervention targeted to individuals with chronic diseases chronics. To justify the investment by payers in DM, it is important to demonstrate beneficial clinical and financial outcomes. This paper analyzes the health cost trends between the chronic and non-chronic populations. Paper 7 of an 8 paper series on 'An Introduction to Care Management Interventions and Their Implications for Actuaries'.

Description: The SOA analyzes the effects that a five-year extension of the 10 percent corridor would have on minimum contribution requirements and funding-based benefit restrictions. The SOA provides a brief analysis of the effects of making the 10 percent corridor permanent.

Description: This paper will show how the NAIC formula and others can be allocated by line of business by the use of partial derivatives of RBC.

Description: The Group Annuity Experience Committee performs biennial mortality studies of insurance company annuity experience under group pension contracts issued primarily in the United States. This report covers two biennial experience periods, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006.

Description: This document is composed of the questions and comments received to date on the initial report of the SOA’s research report on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts Under Possible Future International Accounting Standards.

Description: A research report that examines modeling of cash flow associated within a pool of mortgages and specifically focusing on the effectiveness of infusing a limited amount of capital into the pool.

Description: Email discussion that took place prior to the Housing in Retirement Round Table.

Description: Transcript of a round table discussion on Housing in Retirement.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.

Description: This report provides a system-wide analysis of the expected contribution requirements for the U.S. single-employer defined benefit pension universe over the remainder of this decade.