Description: Statistics about the National Hockey League Players’ Retirement Benefit Plan and its funded status.

Description: Statistics about the Screen Actors Guild - Producers Pension Plan and its funded status.

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: A discussion on using the Cox Proportional Hazards Model in developing a predictive underwriting model that produces a mortality multiplier for each individual.

Description: A discussion about how many models can address the over fitting issues caused by too many variables by regularization, variable selection is still meaningful.

Description: The article looks back at the development of life protection product underwriting and pricing in UK. It describes the development in waves of change, looking at different drivers, e.g. consolidation of the life insurance industry, the role of technology as a driver for efficiency gains via electronic underwriting. Different levels of sophistication are being discussed and possible implications for the relationship between direct offices and reinsurers. This rather thought provoking article is based upon Munich research as well as market experience and ties in with a number of current topics as for example potential changes as a result of the Retail Distribution Review and the Gender Directive implementation.

Description: A recap of the three-day seminar including the history of reinsurance, review of reinsurance company structures, and review of specialty products and hybrid reinsurance solutions.

Description: The rapid pace of change within the reinsurance sector over the past few years has given way to the permutations of a “new reality” that is being shaped by abundant capacity from traditional and alternative sources.

Description: Interview with an industry leader.

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