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Actuaries to Discuss New Actuarial Research Study on Pension Contribution Challenges

  What: The American Academy of Actuaries will host a Capitol Hill briefing to discuss new research findings from a Society of Actuaries study that identifies looming…
Topics: Public Policy Retirement
Date Published: 10/03/2011
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Actuaries: Don’t Wait until Deficit Deal Is Reached; Now Is the Time to Address Social Security

  WASHINGTON — Sept. 23, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries Social Security Committee is urging policymakers to improve the long-term solvency and sustainability of Social Security. The…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy Retirement Social Security Solvency
Date Published: 09/23/2011
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Actuaries Urge “Super Committee” to Put Medicare on the Table

  WASHINGTON — Sept. 12, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries Medicare Steering Committee is urging the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to develop proposals to slow health…
Topics: Financial Security Medicare / Medicaid Professionalism Public Policy Solvency
Date Published: 09/12/2011
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Donald Fuerst Named Senior Pension Fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries

  WASHINGTON — Aug. 5, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries announced today that Donald Fuerst will be the professional association’s new senior pension fellow. Fuerst recently retired…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy Retirement Social Security
Date Published: 08/05/2011
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Capitol Hill Briefing on Pension Contributions Postponed

  WASHINGTON — Aug. 2, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries Capitol Hill briefing on private-sector defined benefit pension contribution challenges—originally scheduled for…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 08/02/2011
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Actuary to Congressional Panel: Increase the Social Security Retirement Age

  WASHINGTON — July 11, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries Public Interest Committee Chairperson Tom Terry testified to members of Congress that efforts to restore actuarial balance…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy Retirement Social Security
Date Published: 07/11/2011
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National Flood Insurance Program in the Spotlight at Upcoming Actuaries’ Briefing

  What: Capitol Hill Briefing — Weathering the Storm: Placing the National Flood Insurance Program on Actuarial Solid Ground The American Academy of Actuaries will host a briefing to discuss…
Topics: Casualty Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 07/01/2011
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Letter to the editor of National Underwriter Life & Health responding to “LEPr Develops Life Expectancy Estimation Standards” published on May 4

  To the editor: As the chairperson of the American Academy of Actuaries Life Settlements Investment Work Group, I am responding to the article published online about the document…
Topics: Actuarial Standards ASB Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 05/31/2011
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American Academy of Actuaries Issues Discipline Notice

  WASHINGTON — March 29, 2011 — The American Academy of Actuaries announced that the following discipline action became effective on March 28, 2011: Disciplinary Notice The…
Topics: ABCD Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 03/29/2011
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Actuaries: Removing Individual Coverage Mandate Would Require Alternatives

  WASHINGTON — March 28, 2011 — The individual health insurance coverage mandate is such a vital component of the year-old health reform law that, if removed, alternatives would be…
Topics: Financial Security Health Insurance Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 03/28/2011
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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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Practice Note

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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Issue Brief

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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Issue Brief

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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