How insurance companies estimate costs and price health insurance policies Hartford Courant, March 3, 2011
Academy Health Practice Council Vice President Tom Wildsmith was the featured guest expert during a live web chat. Wildsmith took questions from participants on a host of issues, including how insurers determine premium rates and how health care reform will affect insurance markets.
Actuaries: Everyone asking about mandate alternatives Politico, March 2, 2011
Academy volunteers, including Health Practice Council Vice President Tom Wildsmith, discussed their recent visit to Washington to confer with policymakers on health care reform implementation.
Commentary: Stamford squeezing front-line workers Stamford Advocate (Connecticut), March 2, 2011
An op-ed cited the Academy's issue brief on The Value of Defined Benefit Plans. The brief states that the management of investments is more efficient in a defined benefit plan than in a defined contribution plan and this efficiency often can lead to higher returns.
The March 23 cross-practice webinar on Revised ASOP No. 41, Actuarial Communications will cover important topics every actuary should know, including revised requirements for actuarial communications and required disclosures.
Recently Released Publications
Check out the latest issue of Contingencies—the Academy's bimonthly magazine of the actuarial profession. Features in the March/April issue include a discussion of how risk-management techniques developed by World War II codebreakers are relevant in the corporate world today, how planning for a product recall protects a company's bottom line and reputation, the importance of asking the right questions when financial reports are constructed, and much more. This issue also includes Actuarial JobSeeker, a special supplement.
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