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 23, 2019)

The summer issue of The Retirement Report includes a Q&A with Jason Russell, chairperson of the Multiemployer Plans Committee, on highlights of the Academy’s recent multiemployer plan briefings on Capitol Hill and related issues. Also in the issue, more coverage of the multiemployer briefings, a Capitol Forum webinar looks at national retirement policy, a pension webinar on return expectations, and recent legislative and regulatory activity. (August 23, 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)

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)

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)

The Pension Committee submitted comments to the Society of Actuaries Retirement Plans Experience Committee regarding the Pri-2012 exposure draft. (August 12, 2019)

The Academy has released a new Essential Elements paper, Creating a National Retirement Policy, outlining the ways in which a comprehensive national retirement policy could potentially address concerns about retirement security in the United States. Essential Elements is a series designed to make actuarial analyses of public policy issues clearer to general audiences. (August 12, 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)

The Longevity Risk Task Force provided an update and correlation recommendation to the Life Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group at the NAIC Summer 2019 National Meeting.  (August 03, 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 Long-Term Care (LTC) Valuation Work Group presented an update on their recent activity to the Actuarial Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (August 02, 2019)

The Long-Term Care Combination Product Valuation Work Group updated the Long-Term Care (LTC) Actuarial Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the LTC Combination Product Valuation Practice Note currently exposed for comment. (August 02, 2019)

The Life Practice Council gave an update on the proposed yearly renewable term field test to the Life Actuarial (A) Task Force at the NAIC Summer 2019 National Meeting.  (August 02, 2019)