Description: A high level summary of the basics of Medicare Part D settlements - what they are, and the impact they have on plan sponsors' final financial results. Intended for an audience with limited familiarity with Medicare Part D.

Description: This is Part 2 of a summary of the new, upcoming Social Insurance Law in China. Part 1 was presented in the July 2011 issue of 'In the Public Interest.'

Description: The abstract for the paper The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited.

Description: The abstract for the paper Implications of an Aging Population in India: Challenges and Opportunities.

Description: The abstract for the paper Seasons and Longevity: Mortality Trajectories among the Oldest Old.

Description: This is the Executive Summary of the results of a study, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation, which assesses the extent to which retirement planning software programs help users understand post-retirement risks.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that relates to determining the next standards applicable for pension plan valuation in Canada, depending upon further decisions to be made by the Actuarial Standard Board-Conseil des norms actuarielles.

Description: This abstract describes a study that presents a hypothetical example of a UK term annuity firm and studies its solvency over the period 1985-2010 under various economic capital calculation approaches.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that models a firm value by a jump-diffusion process and derives an explicit formula for the default probability.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that discusses the definition of forward rates in general and gives a generally valid definition of forward rates, and continues the work of Norberg (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, 47(2), 105-112), who made the first attempt to define general forward transition rates.