Description: Education & Examination Redesign—An Update by Larry M. Gorski from The Financial Reporter, May 1999, Issue No. 39.

Description: In this article, the author comments about an exposure draft of a proposed revision of Actuarial Standard of Practice 23 dealing with data quality.

Description: Update on LTC Section activities and other issues from the perspective of a Society of Actuaries' staff actuary.

Description: In the U.S. in the late 1980’s, the Internal Revenue Service was taking steps to try to institute explicit boundaries for the actuarial assumptions being used in 'funding' valuations to determine the appropriate contribution levels for small pension plans. This article was written in the context of that environment, to defend the rights of actuaries to their professional judgement. The courts eventually supported this perspective.

Description: Josh summarizes key findings distilled from last year’s Pension Section Survey, and reports on a fifteen-item action plan that was ratified by the Pension Section Council in February for near-term implementation.

Description: An article from the Chairman of the Product Development Section Council with a brief discussion of plans for the section for the upcoming year 2009.

Description: discussion of the Product Development Section’s plans for the annual meeting.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A continuation of the conversation about principle-based reserves (PBR). Actuaries and an attorney discuss revisit federal-income tax-related issues as they relate to PBR.

Description: Provides an overview of special characteristics of private equity and infrastructure asset classes, based on the perspective of experienced investors