Description: Provides background on the Brazilian insurance authority's ban of the group life rider benefit for Total and Permanent Disability due to illness, TPD. Then discusses alternative benefits that could be offered as replacements.

Description: Department column explaining the SOA’s new e-Learning system.

Description: Department column featuring an interview with Sim Segal.

Description: Feature article that makes the point that an MBA is needed in addition to an FSA.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: Discusses bancassurance in the United States, after providing a brief background about it in Europe.

Description: Discusses why it is so important for actuaries to actively monitor evolving issues with taxation of life insurance companies and products, and how to monitor the issues and get involved with the process.

Description: This article discusses that while life style funds make sense for some, a growing minority of individuals successfully make their own investment decisions. It points out that these options should be kept available and that if proper education is provided the informed investor population would grow.

Description: The author notes a concern for broad risk management in our society, which he names Societal Risk Management, as witnessed by the creation of the department of homeland security and suggests how actuarial expertise can help.

Description: Part 2 of a six-part series on the evolution of risk management continues with this article on dynamic financial analysis.