Description: This articles educates the reader on Mortgage-Backed Securities. It highlights the value of this asset class and also a few of the challenges.

Description: Metadata for entire issue

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.

Description: Introduction to the topics of the issue; and anecdote regarding the value classical versus newer techniques.

Description: Matrix decomposition techniques are used to find main features of a dataset. These features can be used to describe the data or to find clusters of objects. The decompositions have problems when the matrices have missing data or are from different exposures. This article examines the issue and some papers dealing with it.

Description: Discussion of insolvency provision added to reinsurance agreements to insure the continuation of benefits during HMO insolvency, Issue No. 39.

Description: Article discusses what happends when an insurer fails, role of the guaranty association and what is an ideal insolvency. From Health Section News, August 2000, Issue No. 38.

Description: Implications of the Final Health Privacy Rule HIPAA with regards to underwriting, renewing, rating, reserving, reinsurance and acquisitions. Issue No. 40.

Description: An interview with Dawn Helwig on developments in the Long Term Care market.

Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.