Description: Highlights from Munich Re’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section and covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: The article highlights the fallacies of multitasking and targets six actions or points of focus that will enable readers to accomplish more and be significantly more productive.

Description: This is a Call for Papers press release for 2010 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Society of Actuaries, April 12-15, 2010.

Description: A sound enterprise risk management (ERM) framework functions as an ecosystem by balancing the interdependencies of its elements while constantly adapting to an ever‐changing, external environment. Each stakeholder has a unique role to play in forming a thriving ERM ecosystem by integrating risk‐conscientiousness in decision‐making. A resilient ERM framework has a single well‐ understood risk language and culture to promote healthy risk‐taking behaviors. The central focus of such a framework is concentrated around all stakeholders and everyone is held accountable. Every day, external forces can potentially disrupt how we operatively conduct business. Unforeseen changes in regulation, market trends, terrorist’s attacks and extreme natural disasters are often categorized as extremely adverse. How then will your ERM ecosystem survive the one‐in‐200 event and continue to flourish through dynamically changing environments?

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: Evan Borisenko looks at previous challenging environments for the life insurance industry, such as the a period of severe stagnation in the 1930s, the increased inflation in the 1980s and a catastrophe like the Spanish influenza after the World War I. Evan explains that "while each event described above challenged the life insurance industry in a unique way, each event stimulated an equally unique solution." The article concludes that we "fight to repeat history" in a way that we as actuaries should be able to propose unique solutions with when faced with crisis in the future.

Description: A report on the Society of Actuaries’ financial reporting research projects.

Description: This article provides a discussion of the manner in which actuaries have implemented the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2010-26, Accounting for Costs Associated With Acquiring or Renewing Insurance Contracts, for purposes of disclosure statements in conjunction with the Dec. 31, 2011 US GAAP financial statements

Description: Feature article describing how insurers that see beyond seemingly simple baseline requirements can leverage ORSA compliance to bolster ERM capabilities.

Description: Presents the results of the 2014 Life Reinsurance Survey - an annual survey showing new business writings and in force figures by reinsurance company for the North American life reinsurance industry (US and Canada)