40 Insurance Trends for 2011, by Claude Penland of InsTrends.com

Jim Schibanoff, Ron Sims, and Mike Kreidler give their final thoughts at Healthcare Town Hall

Reinsurance, Insurance Startups Trends, as presented by Claude Penland, Actuary

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Actuaries Believe More Transparency in the U.S. Healthcare System Would Help Bend the Cost Curve Downward
Society of Actuaries’ Survey Identifies Effective Ways to Reduce Cost Trends and Create a Sustainable Healthcare System

Understand Actuary's Effect on Life Insurance
Actuary is one of those insurance words that makes people want to run the other way Although you don't need to know it in order to compare term life insurance policies, it's not a bad idea to know how life insurance companies manage their business using actuarial data

Career in Actuarial science
Education sector is growing at a great pace and constantly adding to the growth of the country. The sector of education is always in the stage of development, due to adoption of new techniques and education forms from the foreign countries. The students are always in the search of new fields, which could add to their skills and explore their opportunities in one or the other productive ways. The main aim of getting educated for a student is to earn a respectable amount of salary and frame for himself a bright career route leading to prosperous future. The school and college education these days, are also aimed at the growth of the students. Many new career prospects are coming and grabbing the interest of a large number of students.

Tom Tomczyk Joins Buck Consultants Health and Productivity Practice
40-year veteran of the actuarial and benefits consulting industry joins Pittsburgh office of Buck Consultants

ActuarialQuest Launched By SGRisk: On-Demand Phone Support For Agents and Brokers
Due to the number of inquiries SGRisk has received from agents and brokers regarding actuarial work, the company announces its new, one-of-a-kind service specifically designed for independent property-liability agents and brokers through its ActuarialQuest brand...

Survey of Actuaries, Risk Experts Shows No Clear Shift with Businesses' Approach to Risk; Enterprise Risk Management Increasingly Embraced, but S
A survey of actuaries and other risk experts examines how the economic crisis has affected organizations' risk appetites. Forty-six percent of respondents' organizations have assumed less risk following the recent economic crisis, while 37 percent made no change in their risk approach. Just six percent said their organizations had taken more risk. Other findings relate to the level of support for enterprise risk management (ERM) within organizations and if ERM is deeply integrated within corporate culture.

Inflation Ranks as Today's Top Retirement Concern, as Reported in New Survey
According to the Risks and Process of Retirement Survey Report, a new study from the Society of Actuaries (SOA), inflation is the top retirement concern. The report identifies other concerns among pre-retirees and retirees and offers actuarial approaches to manage those risks.

American Academy of Actuaries Underscores Position: Severing Individual Mandate from Market Reforms Will Lead to Adverse Selection
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Actuaries today reiterated its position on the issue of severability stated in its amicus curiae filing as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on whether, in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the guaranteed-issue and community-rating provisions can be severed from the Act's individual mandate. (Logo: ) In its January 27 amicus brief, the Academy informed the Court that, "However the Court rules on the constitutionality of the individual-mandate provision … the guaranteed-issue and community-rating provisions should stand or fall together with it."  This judgment stem ...