Description: The main focus of this article revolves around pension plans and their funding levels.

Description: In this article, the author shares some opinions and observations derived from his experiences as a major reinsurer of stop loss in the early 80’s and as a rapidly growing stop loss MGU managing general underwriter in the 90’s. From Health Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 59

Description: Impact of various treatments for Alzheimer's on long term care insurance claims. From Long Term Care Newsletter, Sebtember 1999, Issue No. 1.

Description: An economic analysis of bariatric surgery and health care costs supports the case for health plans to cover these procedures.

Description: Overview of opportunities for actuaries in business analytics, as well as the applied statistics and programming skills necessary to succeed.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision modeling.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: The column summarizes tax and retirement matters that ACLI and its member companies have been actively addressing. These include IRS 2015-2016 priority guidance items, the Department of Labor proposed fiduciary rule, proposed IRS hedge fund reinsurance rules, and new IRS notional principal contract rules.

Description: Provides some background on the new regulation, 'The Administrative Measures on Enterprise Annuity Fund', and comments on key issues this poses for corporate pension plans.

Description: An illustration of how to calculate the Stochastic Exclusion Ratio Test given the required inputs as described in the Valuation Manual VM-20 (based on the December 2, 2012, version).