Description: Populations are aging throughout the world. In all countries, there are many public policy and social issues related to long life from financing to health to social isolation and system supports. This panel will review key recent research and will offer an interactive discussion of some of the most important issues facing policy makers everywhere. To focus the discussion, we will examine these attributes through the lens of social capital. This session will focus on issues facing both developed and developing countries alike and compare and contrast different approaches being taken to address issues and their relative success.

Description: This document provides an explanation of the Health Company Pandemic Modeling tool excel workbook and gives step by step instructions for companies to enter specific scenarios and assumptions.

Description: The Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pandemic model tool. This tool is used to project a Life Insurance companies potential losses from an influenza pandemic. Please see the SOA website for complete instructions on how to use this excel spreadsheet tool. Also see the website for the complete research report: www.soa.org/research/research-projects/life-insurance/research-impact-pan-influ-life-ins.aspx. The core of the paper is quantifying the potential impact of selected pandemic scenarios on the Life Insurance industry.

Description: Review of 2010 events and accomplishments of the Untapped Opportunities work group for the Health Section: market research analyzing the perceptions and potential roles of actuaries in the broader health care industry, educational programs on medical and clinical matters, planned research destined to expand brand awareness of health actuaries, and building organizational partnerships.

Description: Complete monograph: Actuarial Consideration in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1. This paper presents a broad overview of the actuarial considerations of insurance company transactions in developing countries, identifying both theoretical and practical issues that need to be addressed when trying to assess the potential value of a multi-national insurance transaction.

Description: The sale process is a team effort. On the sell side, the team usually consists of the seller, their investment banker, the external actuaries and a legal team. On the buy side, the team consists of accounting and tax experts in addition to the previous disciplines. For a sale to be successful, the team on each side must be able to communicate the story of the company in a consistent, focused manner to their publics. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1.

Description: Title Page/Copyright. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, Issue No. 55, May 2007.

Description: Update on the SOA Health Section's Public Health Task Force's comment on Health People 2030.

Description: A status report on the Society of Actuaries' Ambassador Program as of the end of 1999