Description: Full issue of Expanding Horizons, Issue 47 October 2013.

Description: A plain-language, high-level explanation of employer withdrawal liability issues, including how they grew to be large and barriers to their collection.

Description: The 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) approved by the NAIC as the new statutory minimum reserve morbidity basis.

Description: Data is everywhere. Health care generates as much as 30% of the world’s data, and new technologies are changing how life insurers analyze consumer information. Actuaries are business-savvy problem solvers. They understand how to leverage the latest technologies and techniques to turn data into actionable insights and solutions for businesses and can communicate those findings to multiple audiences. SOA-credentialed actuaries use predictive analytics to inform organizational and business strategies, with efforts such as identifying chronic conditions in their early stage or determining stress levels through sweat patterns.

Description: After a decade of traditional actuarial work in health care, David Sotelo was seeking a new kind of opportunity to make an impact. He found it at Collective Health, where he works with a team of actuaries and data scientists that use analytics to streamline health insurance.

Description: Highlights of the 1997 International Underwriting Congress with an in depth discussion of 1 critical illness policies and 2 Use of population data where little insurance data exists.

Description: This is a story of a small insurance company in Argentina “David” that attempted to determine optimal retention levels and the cost of different reinsurance programs by using actuarial techniques.

Description: This elaborates a Global Conference of Actuaries held in India during February 2016. Theme, participation, papers , Regulatory talk, cultural programs etc