Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: This page presents calculators acceptable for exam use.

Description: Web page on which this report is posted. A new valuation standard for single premium credit disability active life reserves was recently adopted by the NAIC. This study examines the experience from 2000 to 2003 on this type of business and relates it to the new valuation standard.

Description: Revised Group Long-Term Disability Valuation Table adopted by Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee at NAIC fall national meeting.

Description: As predictive analytics and data quality become more important to the insurance industry, there is greater need for cross-department communication/integration.

Description: Hear from Michael Xiao about how actuaries are combining business knowledge and data science skills to excel in Kaggle competitions.

Description: The section would like to create a page that explains their 2021 themes and council focus.

Description: This web page contains links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. Most of the links are contained within an Excel workbook. For each document listed in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

Description: This web page contains links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. Most of the links are contained within an Excel workbook. For each document contained in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

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. This web page provides a link to an actuarial acronym reference chart, and provides information as to how actuaries can nominate new acronyms to be added to this chart.