Description: Summary of cost-reduction and quality improvement within the disease management sector. Paper 4 of an 8 paper series on 'An Introduction to Care Management Interventions and Their Implications for Actuaries'.

Description: Statistics about the National Basketball Association Players’ Pension Plan and its funded status.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey of the actions companies took on their term products in response to the introduction of the NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation, ‘Regulation XXX,’ and Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 40. The survey also explores the development of companies' X factors, the associated annual X factor certification process and how Regulation XXX impacts the companies' level term pricing. The survey was conducted by the Regulation XXX Survey Subcommittee of the Society of Actuaries Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee. Common survey responses to Regulation XXX included consideration of reinsurance, changes in product design, the most common changes reported being the length of the guarantee period and the level of the gross premiums, and changing rates on existing products.

Description: Results of a survey to examine the various changes life insurance companies have recently made, or are thinking of making, to improve the new business process.

Description: Study of the impact of IRS proposed mortality tables on private sector pension plan costs, including liabilities, contributions and PBGC premiums.

Description: Statistics about the NHL players' pension plan funded status.

Description: A follow-up to the first Preferred Class Structure Report, which contains the additional analysis of areas identified while preparing the first report of preferred class structure data from statistical agent submissions.

Description: A follow-up to the first Preferred Class Structure Report, which contains the additional analysis of areas identified while preparing the first report of preferred class structure data from statistical agent submissions.

Description: Updated study of metrics for measuring whether US mulitemployer pension plan contributions paid down unfunded liabilities or met regulatory benchmarks

Description: A plain-language, high-level explanation of employer withdrawal liability issues, including how they grew to be large and barriers to their collection.