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One of the presentations was by Stanley Diller, a managing director of Bear Stearns, who insulted all of the actuaries at the conference by telling them the the insurance industry was dead wrong for talking about yields and spreads.

The Society of Actuaries at one time (not sure when) did have an English test, and in that era, actuaries were not merely math nerds, and many of them were leaders in insurance and pensions.

On a different note, much of next week will be devoted to finishing my slides / talk that I will be giving to the Investment Section of the Society of Actuaries at the Annual Meeting on October 15th.

New estimates released from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012 - 22, or 1.0 percentage point faster than the expected growth in the gross domestic product (GDP).

Not exact matches

In fact, 40 % of retirees underestimate life expectancy of people their age by at least five years, according to a study by the Society of Actuaries.

People tend to underestimate how long they might live: 43 percent of retirees and 38 percent of pre-retirees fell short by at least five years when asked to gauge the average life expectancy for someone of their age and gender, according to a 2011 survey from the Society of Actuaries.

He brings over 20 years of experience in the pension and institutional investment industry, including previous roles as an Actuary and Investment Consultant at a large multi-national consulting organization and as a Senior Investment Analyst at an alternative asset management firm.

The actuaries looked at the numbers from homebirths and said, nuh uh, no way, that will cost us a lot of money.

But the policy has proven hugely expensive, with government actuaries revealing in October the extra cost of the triple lock now stands at # 6bn a year.

But instead of forcing the city to cover the difference at once, the actuary proposed a plan that would spread the cost over 22 years, saving $ 400 million dollars per year in previously anticipated costs.

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Paul Hamilton, an actuary and head of higher education at consultancy Barnett Waddingham, said continuing poor economic conditions, including market uncertainty after Brexit, and people living for longer meant 20 years of investment returns on pension funds were currently «missing».

«Even in those cases, it doesn't mean that people get zero,» says Brian FitzGerald, an actuary at Capital G Consulting and author of The Pension Puzzle.

I was at a Society of Actuaries conference in 2001 when I bumped into an actuary who was well - known to most before a meeting.

I marveled at the degree of flexibility that pension actuaries had in setting investment assumptions (and future earnings assumptions), and the degree to which funding was back - end loaded to many plan sponsors.

I was at a Society of Actuaries conference in 2001 when I bumped into an actuary who wa...

(Side note: yes, I know that it is difficult to determine the amount of risk shed, and different actuaries might come to different conclusions, but can't we at least agree on the underlying theory?)

Working as an actuary inside life insurance companies, I saw the complexity of accounting with up to seven accounting bases running at the same time.

And according to a 2007 report by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, there's a 40 % chance that an average Canadian retiring at 55 will run out of savings by 85, and a 90 % chance of being broke altogether at 95.

«It is pretty remarkable that we have achieved this kind of compromise,» says Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell, and author of The Essential Retirement Guide.

«If you don't waste the money you spend, then the savings will take care of themselves,» says Malcolm Hamilton, an actuary at Mercer Human Resource Consulting in Toronto.

At my fellowship admissions course for the Society of Actuaries, I remember arguing with a consultant over these ideas, where she told me that longer - term incentives were unrealistic.

At AIG in the early»90s on the life side, some of the actuaries had a phrase «economically rational.»

«How much longer we work is a big determinant,» says Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell and co-author of The Real Retirement.

I was floored by the low level of rigor in the analyses — it made me think that every bank should have at least one actuary to do analyses with the level of rigor in the insurance industry.

I have a hybrid proposal, which I would view as transitional, that I proposed to a commissioner of IASB at a Society of Actuaries meeting five years ago.

One day my boss called me in and said, «There's a meeting of corporate actuaries at the ACLI in DC.

Well, you can at least get a more nuanced sense of how long you might around by going to the Actuaries Longevity Illustrator, a tool created by the American Academy of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries.

Prior to joining Blueprint Income, Lauren spent most of her career as an actuary at New York Life.

But following a Schloss style of investing allows you to build a margin of safety at the portfolio level, and treat your portfolio like an insurance actuary thinks about the insurance business.

Although term life insurance does provide a guaranteed death benefit for a period of time, the nerds (actuaries) at the home offices of the major insurance companies know very well you will likely never cash in on the death benefit of a term life policy.

They had teams of actuaries calculating the exact interest rates and credit limits that would maximize profits from their customers, and they had the legal system at their disposal if they thought it would have been beneficial.

«If someone works for a stable company with a good credit rating and their pension is less than 80 % funded, I would shrug my shoulders,» says Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell, pension and benefits consultants, and co-author of The Real Retirement.

The first time I mentioned the idea publicly was at the Fellowship Admission Course for the Society of Actuaries in 1991.

«Young families will often transition from a relatively carefree financial existence to 10 or 20 years of having no room to maneuver at all,» says Malcolm Hamilton, a retired actuary and senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.

They say that actuary assess the risks of insurance products to find value for consumers, at the same time evaluate the probable risks of the product.

One would also hope that the actuary would look at the «stress scenarios» in the U.S. housing bust and Canada's own experience in the housing busts of 1981 to 1983 and 1989 to 1992.

Buying an annuity seems like an elegant solution since it removes the risk of outliving one's assets (what actuaries like to call «longevity risk»), it eliminates the hassle of making investing decisions after retiring and the income stream it provides is super safe (it really is, at least in Canada).

I presented it as part of a larger presentation to a session at the Society of Actuaries 2015 Investment Symposium, and a recent meeting of the Baltimore Chapter of the AAII.

They left the hedging decision in the hands of the line actuary and not at the investment department (no joke).

Having worked in the pension business while an actuary at a mutual life insurer, I had the experience of reviewing the pension services proposals of a number of competitors, and of complementary service providers.

Despite what you may have read, the vast majority of Canadians will not suffer from lack of money when they retire, says Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell.

(As an aside, I know of few that are more pessimistic about the situation than the actuaries I have met at the SSA.)

I was working for The St. Paul at the time (a Property & Casualty Insurer), and for an investment actuary like me, who grew up in the life insurance business it was interesting to see the different philosophy of the industry.

While it might seem odd at first glance that an individual can be better at assessing risk than a large company with thousands of actuaries.

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«Retirees in Canada and other developed countries demonstrate a strong tendency to reduce their out - of - pocket spending in real terms starting at around age 70 and accelerating at later ages,» wrote Vettese, chief actuary for the Morneau Shepell human resources firm, which was founded by Morneau's father.

Like in any insurance program, companies in the automobile insurance industry use actuaries to determine what is at risk for an insurance company when it supplies a customer with any type of insurance.

File a GAAP version confidentially at the SEC; then have the SEC hire a staff of Casualty Actuaries to review the filings in detail, and offer suggestions for dealing with egregious violators.

«We're paying 10 % for something that's worth only 6 % and that's because we're paying for the pensions of our parents and grandparents,» explains Fred Vettese, chief actuary at pension and benefits consultants Morneau Shepell.