Description: Discusses some common practices by actuaries and others in the insurance industry that are now undergoing closer regulatory scrutiny.

Description: Based on April webinar, develops nine guidelines for setting assumptions.

Description: Sir Derek Morris carried out a review of the actuarial profession in the United Kingdom at the request of the UK government and reported in March 2005. This article starts with a reprint of an article originally published in The Actuary about the conclusions of the Morris report and continues with an update on what has happened over the 5 years since Morris reported.

Description: Discussion of the standards set by ASOP 23 on data quality within a health insurance context.

Description: A discussion of permissible use and collection of genetic information for Health Risk Assessments and wellness programs under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.

Description: Paying for Independent Providers (IPs) has been a significant development in the evolution of long-term care insurance (LTCI) as a product. A discussion about IP policy benefits and how they constitute a “must have” for LTCI policy sales for competitive reasons.

Description: Results of a Discipline Review Committee convened for the purpose of reviewing a disciplinary sanction imposed by the Joint Discipline Council (JDC).

Description: Model governance must deal with the effects organizational culture, including normalization of behaviors that are inconsistent with appropriate governance.

Description: In this article, Society of Actuaries President, Donald J. Segal, discusses two topics: the importance of voting for a bylaws change that streamlines the U.S. actuarial profession’s disciplinary process, and what the SOA is doing to better serve actuarial clubs.

Description: This article is about not compromising your principles when pressured to do so from internal or external forces.