Description: Recent advances in mortality modeling have enabled applicant-specific quantification of mortality risk in life insurance applicants using laboratory and physical measurements. Relative to more conventional underwriting, this approach identifies a small population of significantly under-priced policy and a much larger, cross-subsidizing group whose risk is presently overestimated. Applicants placed in the highest percentile by this scoring methodology are more than 10X as likely to die in a given period as their demographic peers, and represent approximately 5% of short-term claims. Implications for product design are substantial in both the short- and long-term, as the possibilities for adverse selection grow, and the opportunity for fully individualized pricing raises the more distant prospect of products with as many rate classes as applicants.

Description: Discussion of the need for long term care reinsurance and the types of services needed and available.

Description: Asset Adequacy Analysis for the Long-Term Care Product: A Case Study by Amy Pahl from Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2004, Issue No. 13.

Description: Restoration of Benefits ROB: the provision of a long-term care policy that allows policyholders to restore their maximum benefit period after they have used some or nearly all of their policy benefits to pay for a covered claim event. This is a provision that should be managed closely.

Description: Approaches to filing, approving and implementing LTC rate increases impact policyholder behavior regarding retaining/modifying their coverage.

Description: The article describes a dynamic investment strategy for defined benefit pension funds to de-risk the plan by changing the asset mix based on the funded ratio.

Description: The author compares and contrasts methodologies used for value investing and enterprise risk management.

Description: Institutional investors seeking to hedge have no shortage of choices, and need the right framework to manage the different risks in portfolios as they arise. This article analyzes performance of different equity hedging strategies over the last 15 years, and lays out a potential hedging framework that takes into account types of risks being hedged, fundamental views, and current market pricing of protection.

Description: Update of the activities being carried out by the Joint Risk Management Section

Description: An excerpt from the SOA-sponsored research report of the same title. This article describes three elements of a strategic pension risk management framework: adjusting corporate financial metrics for corporate pension plan; the trade-off between pension risk and capital; empirical evidence of how corporate pension plans impact stock prices or credit spreads