To mark this anniversary, the American Academy of Actuaries is exploring ERISA’s present and the future of retirement through a series of events and issue papers.
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By: Michael Winkler
THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES AN INSIGHTFUL OVERVIEW of the findings from the first series of annual statements recently published worldwide following the implementation of the IFRS 17 standard.
By Eric Harding
THE OTHER DAY, OUR KITCHEN TURNED INTO AN ARENA OF SORTS—though not in the traditional sense.
By Lisa Slotznick
REPUTATIONAL RISK TO ACTUARIES—are we worried? The lead story in this issue of Contingencies on the reputational risk to actuaries’ principals (and in turn to actuaries) focuses on several topic areas—major insurance company insolvencies, climate change with its impact on availability and affordability of insurance, demographic shifts impacting solvency of retirement and life insurance programs, and artificial intelligence.
By April Choi
Do these sound familiar to you? As practicing actuaries, we inevitably encounter situations when we must deal with unreasonable requests from our companies’ management or clients. But what happens when we are pressured to compromise our professional integrity?
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
CLIMATE CHANGE REPRESENTS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMIC RISK that the Earth has ever encountered since the dawn of human existence.
By Tom Chivers
WHEN I TOOK MATH STATS, Bayes’ theorem took a scant four of the 800 pages of the textbook (published 1990). The instructor told us some researchers were finding interesting applications for it, but we weren’t going to learn about that.
By Kenneth A. Kent
Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports in America, and it’s easy to understand why.
