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News for Friday, October 22, 2021

This Week: Countdown to Annual Meeting & Public Policy Forum--Room Block Extended and Individual Session Registration Available; Academy Attends ASPPA Conference

Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (October 22, 2021)

This Week: Deadlines Today--Early Registration for Annual Meeting & Public Policy Forum and P/C Loss Seminar; Professionalism Webinar Set for November

The Retirement Report, Summer-Fall 2021

The Summer/Fall issue of The Retirement Report looks at multiemployer plan issues that arose as part of the American Rescue Plan Act and the PPC’s August webinar on those issues, with a Q&A featuring several members of the Multiemployer Plans Committee. Also in the issue, a preview of the Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum’s pension sessions, the new issue brief, The 80% Pension Funding Myth, Sherry Chan is set to become the Academy’s next pension vice president, and recent state and federal legislative and regulatory activity. (October 14, 2021)

Breaking News--New Annual Meeting Speakers Announced; PBR Boot Camp Next Week; Selection Committee ASB, ABCD Appointments

Council Releases Update of 80% Pension Funding Myth Issue Brief

The Pension Practice Council (PPC) published an issue brief, The 80% Pension Funding Myth, which addresses a persistent misconception that pension plan health or soundness can be determined solely by referencing a supposed 80% funded ratio “standard.” Read the news release. (October 06, 2021)

This Week: Just Two Weeks Left for Annual Meeting Early Discount Rates; International Outreach; Register for Mini-PBR Boot Camp

Actuarial Update, September 2021

The September Actuarial Update covers the two bestselling authors who will give plenary-session addresses at the Academy’s Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum, which will be held Nov. 4–5 in Washington, D.C., as a hybrid event. They are Robert Costa—co-author of the current No. 1 bestseller Peril, who will speak at the opening plenary session for in-person attendees, and Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, who will keynote the professionalism plenary for both in-person and virtually connected attendees. Also in the issue, Bill Michalisin takes the helm as the Academy’s new executive director; the Magic School Bus book is again available for order; health and pension issue briefs address the federal government’s recently released trustees’ reports on Medicare and Social Security; the Academy presented its scalars research at the Virtual Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar and Workshops; and the “Professionalism Counts” column discusses the Applicability Guidelines. (September 30, 2021)

This Week: Bill Michalisin Is the Academy’s New Executive Director; Author Cathy O'Neil to Keynote Annual Meeting Professionalism Plenary Session

Academy Welcomes William Michalisin as Our New Executive Director

In a letter to members of the Academy, Academy President Tom Campbell announced the appointment of William “Bill” Michalisin, CAE, CIA, as the Academy’s Executive Director. Bill is a highly qualified and experienced professional and association leader and starts in the position on Sept. 27, 2021. Read the news release. (September 23, 2021)