Description: Read how to combine people management and mentorship to create positive and open environments and improve employee engagement and productivity.

Description: Created in November 2020, Actuaires du Monde (Actuaries of the World in English) is a non-profit organization registered in France.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: The collective investment in transforming the life insurance proposition exceeds anything seen in the last thirty years — a working lifetime. As one would expect, reinsurers are playing a major role. The past five years have seen global reinsurers raise the bar on client experience to new levels, while also investing, expanding and re-organizing to support the transformation of the primary insurance industry, and in so doing also their own.

Description: This article is an opinion piece on the value of Sections to the Society of Actuaries. In particular, the Smaller Insurance Company Sections supports its members by sponsoring meeting sessions, developing webcasts, actively supporting research and promoting a sense of community and collaboration.

Description: Reprinted from Impact Insurance Facility blog as part of the International Labour Organisation.

Description: The article summarizes the provisions of H.R. 1 that impact the tax qualification of life insurance contracts and the tax reporting of life settlements

Description: The widening gap in life span between high- and low-income Americans may be eroding the progressivity of Social Security retirement benefits. Differential longevity trends have had the effect of raising lifetime benefits for high earners but not for low earners. Social Security’s long-term financial problems result in part from an increase in average life expectancy driven by wealthier people living longer, and, thereby, collecting more benefits. Policymakers should not use funding shortfalls attributable to these trends as an excuse to cut monthly benefits alike for those who have gained (high earners) and for those who haven’t (low earners).

Description: Happiness at work has been linked to major increases in productivity. Find out how to elevate your happiness in just 60 seconds a day.