Description: It is, without doubt, the poorest people in the world who are most in need of the security that insurance brings. Renata De Leers and Queenie Chow discuss why the micro-insurance market has low penetration, and why actuaries are so well placed to assist insurers in understanding their clients' needs.

Description: Description of an ERM workshop delivered in Nigeria by Actuaries Without Borders in collaboration with the College of Insurance and Financial Management.

Description: Discussion of rate differences by family tier and risk class for LTC and Medicare Supplement plans, and to what extent these differences are fair, ethical, legal, or actuarially sound.

Description: Actuarial equivalence in long term care rate increases may be unattainable in a system that has so many limitations.

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Finance Research recently made available the results of a research study that explores economic series and provides an Excel-based tool for generating future economic scenarios. From Risks and Rewards Newsletter, August 2005, Issue No. 47.

Description: In 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries Life Capital Adequacy Subcommittee LCAS published a set of 10,000 stochastic scenarios that was intended to be used to support the publication, “Recommended Approach for Setting Regulatory Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Variable Products with Guarantees Excluding Index Guarantees.” The primary purpose of this article is to illustrate statistical measures that can be used to evaluate stochastic simulations.

Description: Discussion of significant anomalies in option pricing due to the independent identically distributed assumption of the Black Scholes formula.

Description: Argues public plans should only hold bonds, on the basis of tax and finance arguments.

Description: Update on Principles-Based Reserving

Description: From 4 to 8 June 2018, the German Association of Actuaries, in conjunction with the IAA, will host the 31st International Congress of Actuaries in Berlin.