Description: This article summarizes the Actuarial Education Session at the Joint Mathematics Meeting.

Description: Feature article discussing actuaries’ view of the perfect health care reform package with an emphasis on funding/financing. Part 4 of a 4-part series.

Description: The column summarizes tax and retirement matters that ACLI and its member companies have been actively addressing. These include IRS 2015-2016 priority guidance items, the Department of Labor proposed fiduciary rule, proposed IRS hedge fund reinsurance rules, and new IRS notional principal contract rules.

Description: This is the third in a series of articles about revenue recognition for insurance contracts. The articles address revenue recognition for those contracts that are measured by the building blocks approach under the emerging new standards for insurance that are being developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) of the United States.

Description: The main focus of this article revolves around pension plans and their funding levels.

Description: In this article, the author shares some opinions and observations derived from his experiences as a major reinsurer of stop loss in the early 80’s and as a rapidly growing stop loss MGU managing general underwriter in the 90’s. From Health Section News, September 2008, Issue No. 59

Description: An economic analysis of bariatric surgery and health care costs supports the case for health plans to cover these procedures.

Description: Overview of opportunities for actuaries in business analytics, as well as the applied statistics and programming skills necessary to succeed.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision modeling.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.