Description: Identifies some key pitfalls in developing equity-indexed products and suggests some steps insurers can take to avoid unpleasant financial surprises.

Description: discussion of risk management and proper pricing of life insurance products.

Description: This article discusses The Compact is an agreement between member states to develop and use a single set of uniform standards as the guidelines to be followed for forms to be approved, including any actuarial-type requirements.

Description: Presented at August 2011 46th Actuarial Research Conference. Compression methods improve model run time. This talk discusses compression features, trade-offs, validation, and recommended practice.

Description: This study is designed to analyze new planning approaches and strategies that combine SPIAs with other techniques to create retirement income synergies. Using historical scenarios, it evaluates how different retirement income strategies hypothetically would have met four separate client goals: sustainable income, liquidity, accessibility and legacy. This report summarizes study findings and includes “planning points” to help readers interpret the study data.

Description: Read the French language version of the March 2018 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: February 2016 issue of Product Matters!

Description: In this paper it will be shown that the result of using the 1975-80 Select and Ultimate Table as opposed to the more modern 1990-95 Select Ultimate Table can be a significant understatement of future mortality and hence, anticipated profits may prove to be illusory.