Description: This teaching session, number 80TS, was presented at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The instructors focus on increasing the awareness of managers to motivate, stimulate, and challenge their difficult employees. A variety of techniques and tools that assist managers to increase productivity and maximize performance capacity are provided. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Eastern Spring Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA on April 10-11, 1958.

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.

Description: The key tasks of credit risk capital project under CROSS II mainly focus onL(1 )Adjustment of measurement framework; (2) Calibration of risk factors, including both credit spread risk and credit default risk;3)Introduction of concentration risk measurement; (4) Higher requirement on look-through rule.

Description: The August/September 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article contains best practices on actuarial modeling based on the author's personal experiences and provides useful advice for actuaries to consider in their daily work.

Description: podcast update of the reinsurance section

Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Find out what roles reinsurance and reinsurance intermediaries play for ceding companies in need of capital and the providers of such capital.

Description: As leaders and managers, we have results to achieve. To get those results, we have to do the right things. Those “things” include the management and deployment of our resources.