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Members can vote for four regular directors starting on Friday, Aug. 26. On Friday, please check for an email from Intelliscan (electionadmin@intelliscaninc.net), the Academy's election vendor, for your online ballot. For those without email addresses, you will receive your ballot by regular mail. If you need help with or have questions about your ballot, send an email to Keith Weir (kwier@intelliscaninc.com).

Art Panighetti, a member of the Longevity Risk Task Force, presented an update to LATF on the task force’s work, including creating a working definition of “longevity risk,” analyzing U.S. mortality tables and reviewing regulatory and company approaches to longevity risk.

John Miller, chairperson of the Annuity Reserves Work Group, provided a non-variable annuity PBR update to LATF’s VM-22 Subgroup.

Mary Bahna-Nolan, chairperson of the Life Experience Committee, presented an update on guaranteed issue and preneed mortality table to the Life Actuarial Task Force.

The Life Products Committee submitted comments to the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) on the proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) that applies to the pricing of life insurance and annuity products.

The Academy released New Risk Regulators and Regulations, an Essential Elements report that highlights many of the new state, federal, and international regulators and oversight efforts that have emerged in the wake of the 2008-09 global recession.