Description: Discusses the growing and evolving field of pricing and valuing stock option plans, and makes the case that actuaries are the professionals best qualified to serve clients in the field.

Description: This presentation from Session 56 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the risks faced by sponsors of defined benefit pension plans and how actuaries can help these plan sponsors adopt plan design strategies to manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 36, Number 7 - September 2002

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 38, Number 4 - April 2004

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium in January 2002. Discusses the impact of longer life spans on families, business, society, and programs to help support the elderly.

Description: This session is an outgrowth from the January 2002 symposium co-sponsored by the Society of Actuaries that explored current thinking on advanced age mortality. Panelists discuss key societal, business and family questions raised by this topic. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 95pd.

Description: Like Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense," we actuaries sometimes see things that others can't. As Social Security reform moves through Congress, and as the topic gets hashed out in the editorial pages of our daily newspapers, many of us actuaries find ourselves muttering over our morning coffee about the ignorance of the non-actuarial community. In fact, just this morning I overheard one such actuary at my local coffee shop. He seemed agitated, as he chugged down his second venti latte. The Wall Street Journal's editorial page trembled in his hands. From The Actuary Magazine February 2005

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 37, Number 8 - October 2003

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 37, Number 3 - March 2003