Description: Discussion of overseas activity in US life mortality reinsurance market.

Description: A discussion on how life insurers can improve the performance of their in-force portfolios.

Description: This paper presents a brief history of life insurance risk assessment and explores a future including wearable devices, genetic testing and digital health data

Description: Answers to questions that have surfaced with regard to recent trends in the use of psychiatric medications, including relative effectiveness compared to prescribing patterns, drivers of prescribing patterns, classification and indications for recently publicized drugs, role of primary care providers, preventive use ofdementia medications, and new developments in the field.

Description: Statistics about funded status of the National Hockey League Players' Retirement Benefit Plan.

Description: The Effect of Medical Technology on Health Care Cost, the Effect of Health Care on Longevity and Vice Versa.

Description: Explains that the conflict of two forces – a need for economic growth in a world that can no longer provide growing oil supply – sets the financial system up for a systemic risk of collapse.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fable of the Storyteller and the Market

Description: A new occupational, or corporate, pension law the, Employee Retirement Security Act or “ERSA”, was passed by the Republic of Korea National Assembly on Dec. 29, 2004. It will allow for private sector defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans for the first time in the world’s 10th largest economy.

Description: The intent of this paper is to establish a correct balance between company interests in investing pension fund assets in the company's own stock and the prudent requirements of good risk management. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.