Pension Practice Council presentation for the Capitol Hill Briefing: Important New Research Findings Indicate a "Rising Tide" of Contributions Facing Defined Benefit Pensions. Presenters from the American Academy of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries discussed new research findings from the actuarial profession that illustrate pension funding challenges facing the private defined benefit system. Presenters also discussed important implications for plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and policymakers.
Academy/SOA Long-Term Disability Work Group update to the NAIC's Health Actuarial Task Force on the work group's progress regarding the creation of a valuation table for group long-term disability. (August 23, 2011)
Nonforfeiture Modernization Work Group's Nonforfeiture Improvement Report that makes certain recommendations with respect to life insurance and annuity nonforfeiture mandates and sets forth certain items for further discussion. (August 01, 2011)
Medicaid Work Group presentation regarding the Medicaid rate-setting process for Medicaid Managed Care programs. The presentation includes a discussion about base data sources, base data adjustments, risk adjustment, risk-sharing arrangements, and performance incentives. (July 21, 2011)
Extreme Events Committee presentation on actuarial rates in the context of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators. (July 17, 2011)
Co-chairperson of the Joint Academy/Society of Actuaries CLASS Act Task Force Steve Schoonveld presentation on the Community Living Assistance Supports and Services (CLASS) program before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Summer Meeting in Newport, RI. (July 16, 2011)
Flood Insurance Subcommittee presentation regarding the actuarial condition of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and its future. (July 12, 2011)
Cori Uccello, Senior Health Fellow, and Thomas Wildsmith, Vice President for Health Issues, slide set regarding the 2011 Medicare Trustees Report. The slide set was presented during a Capitol Hill briefing and provides an overview of the financial projections in the report and the outlook for the program's sustainability. The slide set also addresses various Medicare-related debt- and deficit-reduction proposals and the key cost, access and quality issues associated with each proposal. (May 27, 2011)
Pension Practice Council presentation slides of the April 4 Capitol Hill briefing on Pension Risk and Your Retirement. Presenters Ethan Kra and Lane West addressed the risks inherent with retirement plan designs and the implications for retirement planning and public policy reforms. The video of the briefing is also available. (April 14, 2011)
Stu Mathewson, chair of the Academy's Flood Insurance Subcommittee, presentation before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' (NCOIL) Property-Casualty Insurance Committee on the actuarial implications of the flood mapping update being done within the National Flood Insurance Program. (March 02, 2011)
Pension Practice Council presentation slides for the July 15 webinar about the Governmental Accounting Standards Board's recently released Preliminary Views document on Pension Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers. Panelists discussed several aspects of the GASB document along with an overview of the GASB's progress on the Pension Accounting and Financial Reporting research project.
Steven Schoonveld presentation before the July 11 National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Summer Meeting. The presentation focuses on educating lawmakers about the CLASS Act (the new voluntary, long-term care services program). (July 11, 2010)
Senior Health Fellow Cori Uccello presentation before a June 15 American Enterprise Institute event, offering an actuarial perspective on health care reform implementation. (June 15, 2010)
American Academy of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries slide set from a Capitol Hill Briefing on the actuarial profession’s unique perspective on a risk-focused system of financial services regulatory reform. (September 29, 2009)
Life Reserves Work Group's Asset Subgroup presentation on addressing existing asset default costs in principle-based reserves calculations. (September 21, 2009)
LRWG Asset Modeling Subgroup presentation to LHATF on methods for setting prescribed default costs on existing fixed income investments in VM-20. (June 11, 2009)
Mita Lodh, Michelle Raleigh, and Ross Winkelman webinar slides on risk assessment, risk adjustment, how risk adjustment is used, and issues for consideration in a health reform context. (May 20, 2009)
LRWG Asset Subgroup presentation on a proposed methodology for setting prescribed default costs on existing fixed income investments in VM-20. (March 15, 2009)
LRWG Asset Subgroup presentation to interested parties and regulators on a proposed methodology for setting prescribed net spreads on new investments in VM-20. (December 11, 2008)