What's an actuary?

Aside from being a great actuary, Jeremy was a great person.  I will miss my friend. http://www.wirepoints.com/r-i-p-jeremy-gold/ https:...

No longer working as an actuary.

Monday October 27 Session 9 - Joint Risk Management Section Breakfast Session 12 - Opening General Session Session 22- Pension Managemen...

Monday October 21 Session 10 Education & Research Section Continental Breakfast: The Highlights of the ARC Session 13 Opening General ...

The funded status of pension plans has been on a wild ride since 2008, experiencing major declines in 2008, 2010 and 2011. The drops were du...

Retired police and firefighters from Central Falls RI have agreed to sharp pension cuts, a step thought to be unprecedented in municipal ban...

Monday, October 17 Session 8: JRM Section Hot Breakfast –  Emerging Risks Session 13: Opening General Session Session 17: Is the Arithmet...

The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies increased by $134 billion during September, from a deficit of app...

Stochastic Methods Pricing Theory

“I’ve gotten to know [the actuaries].  It’s actually the highlight of my day when I meet with actuaries. I love those meetings. That’s the m...

Prichard, Alabama — This struggling small city on the outskirts of Mobile was warned for years that if it did nothing, its pension fund woul...

ING Groep NV began laying off 400 people in its US insurance operation as it prepares to sell the unit in an IPO.  The cuts amount to a 5% r...

Monday, October 18 7:15-8:15 Session 9: Investment Section Breakfast 8:30-10:00 Session 13: Opening General Session 10:30-12:00 Session 2...

The wave of consolidation in the benefits consulting/outsourcing industry is accelerating.  There will now be only three major players - Tow...

As one might have guessed two years ago when HP acquired EDS, HP doesn't want to stay in the benefits outsourcing space.  In June of la...

www.insurecan.com is a Canadian life insurance broker's site. However, it has a bunch of historical actuarial research info including ...

Aon Consulting agreed to buy the Compensation and Benefit Strategies division of JPMorgan Chase (i.e., the former Chicago Consulting Actua...

Disagree with a portion of their new board policy. http://home.comcast.net/~cscg/20100225OpenLetter.pdf

http://www.actuary.org/pdf/health/differences_jan10.pdf

I'm leaving for Boston this morning; I'll be attending the Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting starting Monday. Below is a list of t...

http://longevity-risk.org/presentations/Workshop_Session6/6A_Daniel_Bauer.pdf

For all the gory details, you can go to: http://authorskeptics.blogspot.com/2004/09/professor-doris-kearns-goodwin.html Disgraceful!

I wonder what this will mean for ACS's Buck Consultants actuarial consulting subsidiary.

The presidents of the CIA/CAS/SOA have issued a joint letter to share news of and request member feedback on a proposal for developing futur...

http://www.pensionriskmatters.com/2009/07/articles/pension-consultants/what-is-the-proper-role-of-an-investment-consultant/

One of the case studies concerns WorldCom . When I finished reading it, I was left wondering if this was a WorldCom that operated in some o...

Here's a dilemma: You manage a public employee pension plan and your actuary tells you it is significantly underfunded. You don't wa...

This will creat the world's largest employee-benefits consultancy, surpassing current leader Mercer.

In the thunderous collapse of GM, one detail seems to have gone almost unnoticed. The old GM's US pension fund, with its near-$100bn of ...