Description: Previews the investment sessions at the October 2015 SOA annual meeting in Austin, TX.

Description: Invites readers to submit topics on the theme of "This Time It's Different. Members will then be invited to submit essays for and against.

Description: Argues renewable energy will displace fossil fuels, leading to investment opportunities and risks

Description: Discusses some of the new and different ideas being considered by the Wilcox Committee that is working on the Unified Valuation System, UVS, especially as they relate to smaller companies.

Description: This articles provides tactics to consider to help eliminate the 21st century version of the ‘generation gap’ because, despite being in the same profession, we may be approaching our work from different perspectives.

Description: Individual Market and ACA Products Actuarial rating principals

Description: CLASS Act and ACA

Description: Discussion of how meaningful GAAP ROE is as a measurement of management performance or how well management has deployed capital over a reporting period.

Description: Analysis of IASB position on the discount rate to use in computing the Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities

Description: The Academy's Life Financial Reporting Committee announces the soon to be released practice note on EV. The Practice Note focuses on traditional and European Embedded Values, while leaving the thornier issues relating to Market Consistent Embedded Values for a future Note.