Description: Authored by a MIB Solutions team of Tom Rhodes, Stuart Klugman, Marianne Purushotham and Stacy Gill, the report summarizes the results of a study on the application and adoption of credibility theory within the life insurance and annuity industry. In addition to the report, numerical examples related to the application of credibility to company mortality and lapse data are provided in the four Excel files. This excel spreadsheet is a numerical example relating to the application of Credibility for lapses by policy for limited fluctuation. Please see the SOA website research section for the full report on Credibility Theory Practices.

Description: Research project that assesses the accuracy of commonly used IBNR estimation methods over a wide range of scenarios.

Description: Study of industry pricing assumptions from 2000, 2007, and 2014. Concludes that current LTC products are priced to make future rate increases unlikely.

Description: A book review of 'Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst'

Description: Actuaries interact with a dizzying array of programs and institutions from around the world–and the many acronyms they use as shorthand–every day. But there are just too many acronyms for anyone to keep straight, and new ones are being added all the time. Members of the American Academy of Actuaries' Solvency Committee have put together an acronym reference chart.

Description: The Milliman extension to the 1975-80 basic tables used for the 2005-07 Individual Life Experience Study. See the SOA website, research section, for the complete report.

Description: Excel file containing extracts of utilization and costs for chiropractic and acupunture - all members combined. From a research project examining the utility of standard eligibility and claims extracts for complementary and alternative medical therapies - CAM analysis.