Description: A review of Actuarial Guideline AXXX

Description: The Johns Hopkins ACG Team's comments regarding their participation in the Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment.

Description: Companies need to learn to plan for uncertainty by taking into consideration downturns, not just an environment of moderation and occasional booms.

Description: The guest editorial details some valuable lessons during the author’s career as an employee benefits (mostly retirement) consultant, turned P&C predictive modeling, reporting and data warehousing lead, turned an analytic strategist and independent consultant.

Description: The author uses a reprint of an article from the very first edition of the “News from the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Development Section” and assistance from the Taxation Section Council and Friends of that Council to decipher the changes between the life insurance tax environment back in the 1980s compared to today.

Description: This article notes that life insurance companies have long used sophisticated techniques for appraising capital investment, and explores the question of whether these techniques can be applied to other industries.

Description: In this article the author discusses stable value wrap contracts, funds in defined contribution pension plans, which credit interest and guarantee principle. This article discusses current controversies about the classification of the wrap contract and about the relative value of its experience-rated and non experience-rated versions, and concludes that a wrap is not a derivative.

Description: Description of new regulatory risk disclosure for private fund advisers.

Description: Demutualization: Filling the “GAAP” in Accounting by Darryl G. Wagner and Patricia E. Matson from The Financial Reporter, February 2000, Issue No. 41.