Description: Read the March 2017 issue of The Financial Reporter published by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: Oliver Wyman surveyed the life insurance industry in 2Q 2018 on emerging life PBR practices. Key takeaways and a deeper dive on select practices are provided.

Description: Past problems with Association Group Disability Coverage inadequate pricing, contract deficiencies, less restrictive underwriting standards, lack of risk diversification Issue No. 38

Description: The career path of a former actuarial consultant who is now executive vice president of marketing and strategic development for CVS Caremark.

Description: Introduction to population health, a collaborative discipline that seeks to leverage all the determinants of health personal behaviors, medical care and the public health infrastructure, as well as the social and economic context at the community and national level to maximize the health of populations.

Description: This article focuses on the actuarial value calculator and the methodology used. It proposes potential future improvements to this model.

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: This study note focuses on actuarial applications and loss distributions for insurance products.

Description: This paper discusses both the theoretical and the application aspects of stress testing in managing enterprise risks. Effective stress testing maximizes the risk adjusted enterprise profit by controlling major risks financial, strategic, operational and hazard upon identifying risk metrics and modeling the correlations. A case study is included for demonstration purposes.

Description: This paper explores Indian futures and options market as a market for hedging by equity holders. The authors have tried to examine optimal hedge ratio and hedge efficiency, and to provide empirical evidence from India.