Description: This article provides details of the SOA’s international outreach strategy to better support its members and candidates who live and work in Asia and other regions outside of its traditional markets.

Description: A discussion of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ (CIA) University Accreditation Program (UAP).

Description: The editorial features a quiz on how well actuaries know who they are as a profession, historically speaking.

Description: Speakers and other attractions at the 2013 Annual Meeting.

Description: Opportunities for earning continual professional development (CPD) credit, including meeting sessions, podcasts, e-learning courses and volunteering.

Description: Details of an actuary’s project to help a local nonprofit agency improve its data analysis and customer service issues.

Description: This article discusses the different types of attitudes toward risk based on the prevailing economic climate.

Description: Health care reform will require health insurers to change the way they make decisions on what to sell while remaining financially sound. The new regulatory reality of expanded access to coverage leaves insurers with fewer options for managing costs and business risk. With the introduction of risk adjustment mechanisms in the exchanges, the most profitable members will not necessarily be the lowest cost ones, but rather, the members which the health plan is relatively more effective at servicing. While Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 'PPACA' prohibits underwriting and using any health status information for denying coverage or varying the premium rates, this article describes how the use of consumer data will affect the way health insurers make decisions on what products to sell.