Description: This report provides key findings from the 2005 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey related to Americans' awareness of retirement risk, how their awareness has changed since the previous study performed in 2003, and how it affects the management of their finances.

Description: This is the inventory part of the report from the research project that reviewed and inventoried the range of quality and efficiency measures currently available for healthcare. The goal was to outline key areas of quality and efficiency measurement and identify future opportunities for actuaries. The inventory lists the resources and provides brief descriptions of their services with links.

Description: Appendix 3 titled RESULTS OF MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR CATEGORICAL OUTCOMES in SET#2, from the research report entitled 'Exploration of Reputational Risk from the Perspective of a Variety of Stakeholders.'

Description: Recognizing an opportunity to help serve its members in this age of increased financial oversight, the Health Section of the Society of Actuaries commissioned a series of guides on the use of statistical techniques specifically geared for the work of health actuaries. In this first guide in the series, the topic is an estimate well-known to health actuaries- the calculation of incurred but not reported [IBNR] health claims reserves. In particular, this guide focuses on the development of confidence intervals around IBNR estimates.

Description: This report is sponsored by the Society of Actuaries in collaboration with Ernst & Young. It examines the application of stochastic modeling techniques to non-market risks facing the life insurance industry.

Description: Attempts to Quantify Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Description: This report provides key findings from the 2003 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey related to Americans' awareness of retirement risk, how their awareness has changed since the previous study performed in 2001, and how it affects the management of their finances.

Description: This study provides insight about what retirees and those nearing retirement age say about management of post-retirement risk and the use of various strategies for managing that risk.

Description: This is the report on the findings of the January 2002 retirement risk survey. The purpose of the study was to evaluate American's awareness of possible financial risks and how this awareness impacts the management of their finances with respect to retirement.

Description: This report presents results for industry long-term care insurance persistency.