Description: Second article in a series on pension accounting changes. This article will concentrate on updating the status of global convergence in Canada and also look at changes proposed in the International Accounting Standard, IAS 19.

Description: Standards for accounting for pension and post-retirement plans around the world are changing. The ultimate goal is a global standard to replace International Accounting Standard 19 IAS 19. The changes in the United States to reflect the global standard fall under their Statements of Financial Accounting Standards SFAS.

Description: Applying the new GDPR terms to Actuarial work, to secure private data in portfolios while using those for pricing and reserving modelling in all business lines.

Description: This article explains why distributed computing systems have grown in popularity as well as the benefits and drawbacks of implementing them.

Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.

Description: Economic capital is everywhere you look in the insurance industry these days. Article explains reasons for this and discusses recent developments and the impact on the financial reporting actuary.

Description: This article discusses catastrophic mortality risk and ways that smaller insurance companies can manage the risk, including traditional catastrophe reinsurance, accidental death carve-outs, and catastrophic claim pools.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."