Description: Discussion of asset adequacy analysis: various ways to comply with requirements

Description: This article provides illustrations of an approach to presentation of income and expenses that may be applied to long duration contracts, i.e., those that are measured by the building blocks approach for the emerging new standard on insurance contracts.

Description: Feature article discussing the requirements of AG33.

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

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

Description: Individual Market and ACA Products Actuarial rating principals

Description: In early 2015, the Actuary of the Future section conducted a survey aiming to determine which computer programs actuaries use, and how that usage of these programs differs among disciplines. This article examines the results of this study.

Description: October 2015 issue of CompAct, the technology section's member benefit newsletter.

Description: The values of life insurance and annuity liabilities move in opposite directions in response to a change in the underlying mortality. Natural hedging utilizes this to stabilize aggregate liability cash flows. Our study shows empirical evidence that insurers who utilize natural hedging also charge lower premiums than otherwise similar insurers. This indicates that insurers who are able to utilize natural hedging have a competitive advantage. In addition, we show how a mortality swap might be used to provide the benefits of natural hedging to a firm that writes only one of the lines of business.

Description: Presentation from the 2006 41st Actuarial Research Conference focusing on the declining usage of expert opinions in the actuarial profession.