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

Description: Discussion of competing theories for valuing public pension liabilities. Emphasis on revised Actuarial Standards of Practice that focus on the purpose of the measurement.

Description: Chairperson's column for the July 2016 issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism.

Description: It is worth the effort to obtain a pricing surface. It helps make an informed decision and facilitate the pricing conversation within and outside a company.

Description: The article describes the impact of AG 48 to a captive reinsurer for a SGUL product.

Description: In the year’s first issue of Reinsurance News I talked a bit about what the Reinsurance Section Council had planned for 2015.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: This article provides an overview of the latest IAS developments that affect insurers.

Description: Responsibilities Of The Actuary For Communicating Sarbanes-Oxley Control in accordance With Actuarial Standards of Practice

Description: This is the third in a series of articles about revenue recognition for insurance contracts. The articles address revenue recognition for those contracts that are measured by the building blocks approach under the emerging new standards for insurance that are being developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) of the United States.