Description: This article discusses future benchmarks of Medicare and Medicare's rising costs and its relativity to the actuarial profession.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpt from the fourth white paper in the Commercial Health Care: What’s Next? series.

Description: This is an article about telemarketing and regulations associated with it. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: This article discusses the potential impact that low interest rates can have on the Life Insurance industry, even if they occur for a short period of time.

Description: Impact of low and negative interest rates on various aspects of insurer operations including product management, investment management and capital management.

Description: The article describes medical progress in cancer diagnostics and addresses its implications for Critical Illness Insurance.

Description: The March 2013 issue of Reinsurance News

Description: This article argues that during boom times, it is virtually impossible to get regulators to oppose politicians who are being lobbied by financial services organizations, thus a bubble expands and a bust is inevitable.

Description: Discusses some of the financial implications of the recently issued IASB Discussion Paper on Insurance Contracts which presents the preliminary view that GAAP insurance liabilities should be valued at current exit value.

Description: A discussion of some of the challenges the insurance industry will face as we move towards fair value and a comparison of the pros and cons of rules based vs. principles based reserves.