Publications
Links to Academy periodicals (including magazines and newsletters), reports
and comments (including monographs, issue briefs, and reports to the NAIC),
and other resources.
Need a report on a
specific topic?
Try the Issues index. It lists Academy documents in
eight categories: casualty, health, and life insurance; Medicare; pensions, professionalism;
risk management and financial reporting; and Social Security.
Periodicals
Academy Alerts Timely electronic summaries of major legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments. -
Actuarial Update The award-winning monthly newsletter for Academy members.
ASB Boxscore The Actuarial Standards Board's newsletter, with progress reports on the ASB's work developing and updating standards. -
Contingencies The bimonthly magazine of the actuarial profession, available in print and digital editions; its circulation includes legislators, regulators, CEOs, and all Academy members.
Enrolled Actuaries Report The quarterly newsletter for Academy members who work with public and private pension plans. -
HealthCheck A monthly report on health care reform
Life and Health Valuation Law Manual (For subscribers only.) An annual publication designed to help appointed life and health actuaries comply with the NAIC's model standard valuation law and model actuarial opinion and memorandum regulation. -
Media Update A publication highlighting notable media coverage of Academy public policy issues and actuaries in the news. The current issue is online.
Property/Casualty Loss Reserve Manual (For subscribers only.) An annual publication designed to help appointed p/c actuaries comply with NAIC requirements for statements of actuarial opinion. -
Record The Academy's informal annual report to members.
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Retirement Account Retirement Account is a quarterly digital newsletter for Academy members who work with retirement plans, covering developments ranging from regulations and standard-setting to public policy and legislation.
This Week This Week is the Academy’s end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, events, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. Yearbook The annual Academy handbook that provides information on the Academy's purpose, organization, leadership, awards, and meetings, among other topics.
Reports and comments
Comments Comments, analysis, or explanatory material prepared for an external audience on behalf of an Academy group or the Academy as a whole; these include some letters, memos, reports, and fact sheets.
Issue briefs Analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for all or some of these audiences: policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public. Monographs Longer, more detailed analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for all or some of these audiences: policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public. NAIC reports Reports and letters to groups or officials of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Testimony Written and oral testimony provided to Congress or to other governmental and quasigovernmental bodies. Annual professionalism reports Friend of the court briefs Amicus curiae briefs submitted by the Academy on litigation involving issues important to the actuarial profession. Discussion papers on professionalism topics
Other resources
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Applicability Guidelines for ASOPs, listing ASOPs usually used for specific actuarial tasks (2009)
ASB standards library (a link to the ASB website) Code of Professional Conduct Verifying Academy membership for actuarial equivalence attestations under Medicare
Part D (added July 2005)
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NAAC Annual Report A report on the activities and accomplishments of the North American Actuarial Council
Practice notes Professionalism publications Winning the Public Eye: A Communications Guide for Actuaries currently is being revised.
An updated version will be posted shortly. (11/23/2011)
Questions?
If you have questions about publications on this website, or you can't find the information you're looking for, please contact Christopher Cassidy at the Academy (cassidy@actuary.org, 202-785-7854).
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