Description: This paper reviews the process performed in the actuarial department at one company as an illustration of the process of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley. It also discusses costs and benefits.

Description: Issue introduction and theme of how to improve our technical skills and soft skills to better cope with a rapidly changing world.

Description: Introduction and overview. From The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Monograph, M-RS05-1.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Myth of Time Diversification

Description: Investment Fallacies: Future Equity Returns

Description: Asia is experiencing changing demographic, social, and cultural tides which threaten to submerge existing retirement-pension systems.

Description: Research report that presents results of a company survey examining the extent to which the buyers of individual life reinsurance are concerned about reinsurance capacity and the concentration of risk on their own books and on the books of reinsurers.

Description: The author discusses the review of a recent 2001 Wall Street Journal’s semiannual survey of economists’ forecasts, starting by asking if there is a simple way to summarize the results and to extract a consensus forecast, and from this extraction, determine when an individual forecast is significantly different from that of the consensus.This article is reprinted with permission. It last ran in the Jan. 10, 2001 issue of The La Jolla Economics newsletter.

Description: The article describes how the Smaller Insurance Company Section's Principle-Based Reserves Team is planning to provide information and guidance about principle-based reserves.

Description: Based upon Salim Ismael's keynote address at the SOA Annual meeting in Austin as well as his book Exponential Organizations, this article discusses the disruptive power of two significant trends: the transformative power of new, scalable technology, and the generational shifts caused by Boomers leaving the workforce and Millennials' rise to prominence.