Description: A summary of the Pension Section Council activities including research projects, the establishment of guiding principles, and its financial statement.

Description: Credit Card Approach to Pricing by Ralph H. Gorter from Product Development News, August 2000, Issue No. 50. Examines the pricing of annuities including any bonus features.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries CIA recently updated its studies of lapse experience under universal life UL level cost of insurance COI and term-to-100 T100 policies. These studies can help U.S. actuaries set lapse assumptions for other lapse-supported products where no or little ultimate lapse experience exists, such as return of premium ROP term and UL with no lapse guarantees. The financial implications of overestimating ultimate lapse rates for these products can be significant.

Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the current challenges of life insurance product development in the present times.

Description: Describes the popularity and comprehensiveness of available mortality tables through Table Manager.

Description: This article discusses how actuaries are uniquely qualified to help individuals meet the significant challenges that will have a dramatic impact on their security and happiness during retirement. Therefore, the time has come for the Personal Retirement Actuary.

Description: This column discusses the use and management of data withn the computer language R.

Description: Article discussing the International Actuarial Association's meeting in November 2008.

Description: The September 2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter

Description: Unpaid Loss Reserve fair and reasonable test and two legal cases Utah Medical and Minnesota Lawyers Issue No. 39.