Description: Latest development in IFRS 17 including a first look at companies disclosures and financial impacts, as well as a discussion of some of the run time issues that companies face.

Description: Article presents issues for postretirement medical on models, data and the frail elderly. From Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: A discussion on the starting point of building a predictive model.

Description: A data format for mortality tables along with applications.

Description: Chairperson's thoughts on the evolving nature of actuarial modeling, and results of a survey.

Description: An outline of a formal framework for describing models, inspired by the operational context of governance, management, and use of models.

Description: Feature article describing what author thinks it will take for a life insurance company to be successful in the year 2020.

Description: This paper uses a mortality surge model to estimate the total financial impact on the U.S. insurance industry of a flu pandemic. It does not attempt to determine the probability of such a pandemic.

Description: There are two main techniques for evaluating the financial impact of interest rate movements on insurance companies: duration measures and computer simulations. In many ways these approaches provide complementary viewpoints.