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Actuaries Climate Index Launched Today Measures Changes in Extreme Weather Events and Sea Level

Washington, D.C.; Arlington, VA; Schaumburg, IL; and Ottawa, ON (Nov. 30, 2016) – Today, organizations representing the actuarial profession in the United States and Canada launched the…
Topics: Casualty Climate Risk Public Policy
Date Published: 11/30/2016
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Academy Issue Brief Identifies Seven Critical Areas That Long-Term Care Financing Reform Needs to Address

WASHINGTON—As Americans’ long-term care (LTC) needs increasingly outpace their capacity to finance them, and policymakers explore ways in which to make coverage for care more…
Topics: Benefits Financial Reporting Long-Term Care Public Policy Risk Management Solvency
Date Published: 11/29/2016
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American Academy of Actuaries Recognizes Members’ Service to Public and Profession

WASHINGTON — The American Academy of Actuaries recognized several of its most dedicated members for their service to the Academy, the public and the U.S. actuarial profession with awards…
Topics: Actuarial Standards Benefits Casualty Financial Reporting Life Insurance Membership Principle-Based Reserving Public Policy Risk Management
Date Published: 11/04/2016
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Bob Beuerlein Becomes President of the American Academy of Actuaries, Beuerlein Succeeds Tom Wildsmith

WASHINGTON—Bob Beuerlein, a consulting actuary based in The Villages, Fla., began his term as president of the American Academy of Actuaries today, succeeding 2015-16 President Thomas F….
Topics: Actuarial Standards Financial Reporting Life Insurance Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 11/03/2016
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Multiple Challenges: Pension Actuaries Outline Options for Honoring PBGC Multiemployer Program Guarantee

WASHINGTON – A new issue brief from the Pension Practice Council of the American Academy of Actuaries, Honoring the PBGC Guarantee for Multiemployer Plans Requires Difficult Choices, lays out…
Topics: Public Policy Solvency
Date Published: 10/20/2016
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New Issue Brief Explains Implications of Pension Risk Transfers for Different Stakeholders

WASHINGTON – A new issue brief from the Pension Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries, Pension Risk Transfer, explains the implications for different stakeholders of transactions…
Topics: Annuities Benefits Financial Security Public Policy
Date Published: 10/12/2016
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American Academy of Actuaries to Honor Volunteers’ Efforts

WASHINGTON – The American Academy of Actuaries will honor three of its exceptional volunteers, Donna Claire of Fort Salonga, N.Y., Barbara Klever of Elizabeth, Ill., and Kathleen Odomirok of…
Topics: Benefits Casualty Financial Reporting Governance Health Insurance Life Insurance Principle-Based Reserving Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 09/20/2016
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American Academy of Actuaries to Honor Bob Meilander With Jarvis Farley Service Award

WASHINGTON – The American Academy of Actuaries will present Robert G. Meilander, MAAA, FSA, of Sarasota, Fla., with the prestigious 2016 Jarvis Farley Service Award at the Academy’s…
Topics: Actuarial Standards ASB Financial Reporting Public Policy Risk Management
Date Published: 09/20/2016
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American Academy of Actuaries to Honor Joan Weiss With Robert J. Myers Public Service Award

WASHINGTON – The American Academy of Actuaries will honor Joan Weiss, MAAA, FSA, EA, of Chevy Chase, Md., with the prestigious 2016 Robert J. Myers Public Service Award at the…
Topics: Actuarial Standards Professionalism Public Policy Social Security
Date Published: 09/20/2016
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New Academy Issue Brief Looks at Long-Term Care Insurance Premium Increases

WASHINGTON—With half of Americans age 65 and over expected to need some type of long-term care, a new issue brief from the American Academy of Actuaries provides an examination of the process…
Topics: Benefits Long-Term Care Public Policy
Date Published: 06/03/2016
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Essential Elements: Raising the Social Security Retirement Age

The Academy has released an Essential Elements paper based on the Social Security Committee’s March 2022 issue brief Raising the Social Security Retirement Age. The retirement age is a key…
Topics: Public Policy Retirement Social Security
Date Published: 03/21/2023
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Practice Note

Practice Note on Modeling for Pension Actuaries

Pension Committee public policy practice note providing background and ideas about how a pension actuary might comply with ASOP No. 56, Modeling.  
Topics: Public Policy Retirement
Date Published: 01/19/2023
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Selecting and Documenting Mortality Assumptions for Pensions

Pension Committee public policy practice note, Selecting and Documenting Mortality Assumptions for Measuring Pension Obligations, updating a 2015 practice note, revised to reflect updated Actuarial…
Topics: Actuarial Standards Public Policy Retirement
Date Published: 01/19/2023
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Committee Finalizes Practice Note on Modeling for Pension Actuaries

The Pension Committee updated and finalized a previously exposed draft public policy practice note providing background and ideas about how a pension actuary might comply with ASOP No.
Topics: Public Policy Retirement
Date Published: 01/19/2023
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Medicaid Managed Care State-Directed Payments

The Medicaid Committee released a public policy issue brief providing an overview of Medicaid managed care state-directed payments. The brief discusses: how these payments have evolved from…
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid Public Policy
Date Published: 09/16/2022
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Issue Brief

Health Care and Health Insurance System Risk Assessment and Risk Adjustment in the Context of Health Equity

The Health Equity Committee released a public policy issue brief on health care and health insurance system risk assessment and risk adjustment in the context of health equity. Risk assessment and…
Topics: Health Equity Health Insurance Public Policy
Date Published: 08/30/2022
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DSAC & RETF Release Major Issue Brief on Correlation and Causation

The Data Science and Analytics Committee, in partnership with the Racial Equity Task Force, released a major issue brief, An Actuarial View of Correlation and Causation – From Interpretation to…
Topics: Data Science / Big Data Financial Reporting Public Policy Risk Management
Date Published: 07/06/2022
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Insurance Linked Securities and Catastrophe Bonds Issue Paper

The Academy’s Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee published a paper, Insurance Linked Securities and Catastrophe Bonds, a public policy issue paper.
Topics: Public Policy
Date Published: 06/14/2022
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Policy Paper

ILS Issue Paper Released

The Academy’s Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee published a paper, Insurance Linked Securities and Catastrophe Bonds, a public policy issue paper.
Topics: Casualty Public Policy
Date Published: 06/14/2022
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Issue Brief

Work Group Releases LTC Actuarial Equivalence Public Policy Issue Brief

The Long-Term Care (LTC) Reform Subcommittee’s LTC Actuarial Equivalence Work Group released the public policy issue brief, Value of Reduced Benefit Options in Long-Term Care Insurance Rate…
Topics: Benefits Long-Term Care NAIC Public Policy
Date Published: 05/25/2022
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