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. (August 16, 2019)

Steve Jackson, Academy assistant director for research (public policy), presented an overview of the Academy’s research initiative—its goals, infrastructure, and projects—at the Actuarial Research Conference in Indianapolis. (August 15, 2019)

The August HealthCheck covers updates the Academy made at the NAIC Summer 2019 National Meeting; comments on the proposed actuarial standard of practice, Setting Assumptions; and legislative and regulatory activity that may affect health actuaries’ work. (August 14, 2019)

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. (August 09, 2019)

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. (August 02, 2019)

The Academy hosted a briefing, “Strengthening the System for the Future,” moderated by vice president for pension issues, Josh Shapiro, and featuring expert panelists from the Multiemployer Plans Committee, to provide essential background on the multiemployer pension crisis and its current state. This was the third and final briefing in the Academy’s “Multiemployer Pension Crisis: A 360-Degree Look at the Issue and Potential Reforms” series, intended to equip attendees with a solid foundation of the past, present, and potential future of multiemployer pension plans. (August 02, 2019)

The July Actuarial Update reports on the Academy’s adoption of a new international strategy, which will allow the Academy to more effectively focus on achieving direct representation of the U.S. actuarial profession with those organizations that are of most interest for U.S. practice. Also in the issue: the two-week online election of Academy regular directors begins Aug. 8; Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman will give a plenary address at the Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum; a professionalism webinar on Big Data issues; and the “Professionalism Counts” column, on Precept 13. (July 31, 2019)

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. (July 26, 2019)