(09/10/2024) This event brings actuaries, policymakers, and thought leaders together to discuss key “mega-issues” with wide-reaching implications: health care, climate change, retirement security, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and risk management.
(09/5/24) Retirement security is a growing concern for more and more Americans.
(09/4/24) The Long, Hot Summer of 2024: How Climate Change Events Disproportionately Affect Various Populations.
(09/03/2024) Summer is coming to a close, so the Academy wants to draw your attention to our quickly approaching 2024 annual meeting, Envision Tomorrow.
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.
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?