Description: table with article The Actuary Magazine–April/May 2005 A Strategic Analysis of the US Life Insurance Industry Part 1 Customers

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: Discussion of how non actuaries are taking on many of the enterprise risk management roles of insurance companies. Discusses changes actuaries need to make to re-assert their roles. Also discusses roles actuaries can play in enterprise risk management outside of the insurance and pension industries

Description: Table 2 for article in The Actuary Magazine–April/May 2005 title A Strategic Analysis of the US Life Insurance Industry Part 1 Customers

Description: Securitization of mortgage pools was one of the great financial innovations of modern times. Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO), which took this innovation one step further, are a classic example of what we understand today by the term "financial engineering." Together, these instruments brought liquidity to the real estate mortgage market by attracting new sources of funding for real estate loans. From The Actuary Magazine October 2007

Description: In 2006, the actuarial profession embarked on a campaign to promote itself. The marketing efforts are directed at potential employers of actuaries, particularly in broader financial services and other industries. The goal is to publicize what actuaries can contribute in these sectors through exploiting the opportunity in risk.

Description: This article discusses the benefits of inter-company mortality tables. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.

Description: An article from The Actuary that highlights the strategic importance of inter-company mortality studies. Broad-based mortality studies form the backbone of the life actuarial profession. However, few companies have sufficient exposure or deaths to construct their own mortality table. Even is some large companies have enough data, there is still a vast majority of companies that do not. Historically, the void has been filled by means of inter-company studies.