In recent years, mental health claims have become an increasingly prominent cost driver in the group benefits market. Paul Kennedy, FCIA and Laura Pratt join us to discuss why this has happened, and what strategies employers and group benefits providers can use to mitigate the impact.
COVID-19 and social distancing have disrupted traditional data collection methods in the life insurance underwriting process. This also implicates expected mortality experience and insurance pricing. Emile Elefteriadis, FCIA, and Norm Leblond join us to discuss these changes, and what we may see moving forward.
Barbara Sanders, FCIA, and Barry Gros, FCIA, discuss their recent work published by the C.D. Howe Institute, dealing with the sustainability of contingent pension plans, and how a principles-based regulatory framework may be better suited to these types of arrangements.
As we collect our thoughts for our actuarial memoirs about how we survived the pandemic of 2020, a question may arise as to how we met our professional obligations during these unsettling and unexpected times.
By Houston Cheng, FCIA, Chair of the Property and Casualty Insurance Financial Reporting Committee, and Chair of the P&C Insurance Subcommittee of the Committee on Continuing Education The Property and Casualty Insurance Financial Reporting Committee (PCFRC), along with other CIA councils and committees, have had many discussions on how actuaries might respond and react to the emerging...
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