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American Academy of Actuaries’ Pension Expert Comments on GASB Release

  WASHINGTON – June 18, 2010 – The American Academy of Actuaries Senior Pension Fellow Frank Todisco provided several observations following his review of the Governmental…
Topics: ASB Financial Reporting Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 06/18/2010
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Actuaries to Departments of Labor and Treasury: Annuities Are an Efficient Way to Insure Retirement

  WASHINGTON – May 14, 2010 – The American Academy of Actuaries believes that longevity risk—the risk of living longer than one had financially planned for and thus…
Topics: Annuities Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy Retirement
Date Published: 05/14/2010
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Actuaries Support Federal Systemic Risk Regulator, Anticipate Significant Role for State Insurance Regulators

  WASHINGTON – May 5, 2010 – A task force of the American Academy of Actuaries announced that it supports creating a federal systemic risk regulator for the entire…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy Risk Management
Date Published: 05/05/2010
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Actuaries to Discuss Pension Funding Policy and the Future of Retirement at 2010 Enrolled Actuaries Meeting

  What: Pension funding and a host of other pension issues will be on the slate during the 2010 Enrolled Actuaries Meeting. The 35th annual meeting, which is jointly sponsored by the…
Topics: Benefits Financial Security Pension Funding Professionalism Public Policy Retirement Social Security
Date Published: 03/31/2010
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Actuaries Plan Ahead to Health Reform Implementation

  WASHINGTON — March 24, 2010 – With the enactment of health care reform legislation yesterday, the American Academy of Actuaries said the successful implementation of this and…
Topics: Benefits Financial Security Health Insurance Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 03/24/2010
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American Academy of Actuaries Welcomes New Communications Director

  WASHINGTON – March 15, 2010 – The American Academy of Actuaries announced that Mark Cohen has joined its staff as director of communications. Cohen, a public relations and…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 03/15/2010
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Actuaries Say Base Health Insurance Oversight on Actuarial Principles

  WASHINGTON – Feb. 24, 2010 – Policy efforts for effective oversight of health insurance premiums must be based on actuarial principles, the American Academy of Actuaries…
Topics: Actuarial Science Financial Security Health Insurance Professionalism Public Policy Solvency
Date Published: 02/24/2010
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American Academy of Actuaries Issues Discipline Notice

  WASHINGTON – Feb 4, 2010 — The American Academy of Actuaries announced that the following discipline action became effective on Dec. 28, 2009: Disciplinary Notice The…
Topics: Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 02/04/2010
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Actuaries Call on President and Congress to Adopt Cornerstones for a Financially Secure America

  WASHINGTON – Jan. 27, 2010 – As President Obama readies his State of the Union address, the American Academy of Actuaries is urging policymakers to adopt four cornerstones to…
Topics: Financial Security Health Insurance Medicare / Medicaid Professionalism Public Policy Retirement Risk Management Social Security Solvency
Date Published: 01/27/2010
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Actuaries: Antitrust Exemption Repeal Would Likely Increase Medical Liability Premiums, Limit Competition

  WASHINGTON – Jan. 22, 2010 – The American Academy of Actuaries is concerned that legislative efforts to strip an antitrust exemption for medical professional liability…
Topics: Casualty Financial Security Professionalism Public Policy
Date Published: 01/22/2010
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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 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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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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