Description: The article discusses practical PGAAP issues under China GAAP, e.g. product classification, unbundling, acquisition expense allocation, VOBA grouping.

Description: Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment reform.

Description: Summary of results of a 2010 Health Section survey of actuaries and Medicare population, on ways to bend the cost trend curve downward. Issues included transparency, quality measures, fraud and abuse, provider payment, malpractice, medical errors, consumer education, and the pros and cons of employer-sponsored coverage.

Description: An actuarial model that provides financial incentives to providers to offer patients an approach that can reverse chronic disease and reduce health care costs

Description: Interview with leader Shari Westerfield.

Description: This article consists of a point-counterpoint dialogue addressing important aspects of social insurance programs. It discusses the desirability and advantages of these programs that provide financial assistance to those who are retired, disabled, ill or unemployed.

Description: SOA Board liaison outlines progress made by the new Social Insurance & Public Finance section since its inception.

Description: The authors discuss best practices in building, retaining, and growing diverse actuarial teams and evidence that points to the benefits to companies of doing so.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management challenge between 3 actuaries. Readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?"

Description: This article describes the reasons that diversity in business translates in to better performance for companies with diversity management teams.