Description: The Mortality Improvement Life Working Group released a recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: View the MISSING PAGES FROM STRESS TESTING AND SCENARIO ANALYSIS (pp. 34-39).

Description: The survivor principle--that the share of each, at death, is enjoyed by the survivors--can be used to design tontine annuities and tontine pensions.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting presents a study of the pattern of longevity and mortality improvement in Canada with comparisons to the U.S. and other countries. The data is based on a mortality study of Canadian pensioners.

Description: Panelists discuss the evolution of U.S. pension benefits, funding, and payment conditions from 1940 to the present. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Earlier this year the CAS Constitution was amended to reflect a revised statement of purpose. It reads: The purpose of the Casualty Actuarial Society is to advance the body of knowledge of actuarial science in applications other than life insurance, to establish and maintain standards of qualifications for membership, to promote and maintain high standards of conduct and competence for the members, and to increase the awareness of actuarial science.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether an employee who turned in her resignation should consider a counterproposal by her boss.

Description: in the November 2015 edition of The Stepping Stone, executive coach Marcel Schwantes outlined how great leaders display authenticity—one of the foundations of effective servant leadership. Here Schwantes returns for part two of a six-part series that delves into the best practices of how a servant leader values people.

Description: The author offers advice on maintaining your value and effectiveness which could be negatively impacted by an environmental change and presents a change management model that can be used for self evaluation in handling change and for development of the skill in helping others deal with change.

Description: Most of you have been to a Society meeting at one time or another, and many of you have attended a large number of these meetings. Have you ever wondered about the preparation required to make a meeting a success?