Description: This article explains why distributed computing systems have grown in popularity as well as the benefits and drawbacks of implementing them.

Description: Read the June 2017 issue of Taxing Times published by the The Taxation Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article discusses catastrophic mortality risk and ways that smaller insurance companies can manage the risk, including traditional catastrophe reinsurance, accidental death carve-outs, and catastrophic claim pools.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."

Description: In 2015, LIMRA partnered with the SOA on a study that focused on examining individual LTC policy termination experience including both voluntary lapse and mortality results. This work was based on data submitted by 22 LTC carriers representing approximately 75 percent of the LTC lives inforce over the study period 2000-2011. This article discusses an area of emphasis for the policy terminations work which was to better understand the impact of data quality on reported results given the continued difficulty for insurers in accurately distinguishing voluntary lapse activity from deaths.

Description: A bipartisan Maryland effort created a PUBLIC/PRIVATE Governor's Task Force to develop recommendations to educate residents regarding LTC risk and planning.

Description: The article discusses common themes with personal branding: be authentic, consistently manage your brand, manage your social media reputation.

Description: Discussions on CIGNA, SEPP failure, investor control, tacking rule, and split-dollar life insurance arrangement are featured.

Description: This article discusses the current state of the IAIS' initiative on their group Insurance Capital Standard.

Description: The purpose of the article is to highlight how a person or organization can excel in both a highly-competitive expert-driven environment and one where the environment is less so. One should focus on what can be done well and delegate the remaining tasks to those who are better at performing them. One should understand the environment they are operating in, how it impacts them, and how it may change through time. The principles have application to investment management, investment performance, organizational performance, business development, career progression and economics.