Articles, tagged with "actuaries", page 5
22nd February 2010
Nature of Work
As mentioned above, an actuary's primary responsibility is to create strategies that can capacitate any financial business with strength and insight to counter uncertainties and unfavorable impacts. Actuaries are mostly found in the fie...
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Author:
michael russell
19th February 2010
Trustees are now required to provide an employer covenant review of all pensions.
Since the Pensions Regulator was established, Trustees must now ensure that the financial strength of the sponsoring employer can meet the promises made by the scheme c...
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Author:
LolitaBrown
16th February 2010
It can be pretty challenging for parents to find the lowest car insurance for high school and college students. Student car insurance rates can be excessively high, especially for males under the age of 25.
Not all insurance companies will give lower r...
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Author:
Ron Stephens
09th February 2010
Washington -- In a stark reminder of growing costs, the government estimated Wednesday that health care consumed a record 17.3 percent of all spending in the U.S. economy last year -- or roughly $2.5 trillion.
This was the single-largest one-year jump ...
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Author:
mosup
20th January 2010
Since I retired, about half of my income has been from investments. But I am not against the proposed new Medicare tax on investment income to help pay for health care reform.
If that will reduce the proposed tax on high-cost health insurance plans tha...
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Author:
mosup
19th January 2010
A major investment such as a life insurance policy requires some serious thinking if the potential policy holder is to get the best possible return from their life insurance policy. As with any product or service requiring a large initial outlay, such as ...
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Author:
kIM
29th December 2009
There are different insurance job websites offering the individuals with large opportunities regarding online insurance jobs. Many of the online insurance jobs are committed in offering the insurers with some of the best insurance employment along with a ...
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Author:
John Goldman
11th December 2009
5 possible career options in the insurance industry
Do you want to make a career in insurance industry? There are ample opportunities for success and prosperity in the insurance industry. There is always a demand for insurance professionals as insuranc...
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Author:
Marilyn
11th December 2009
Many times people are searching for some quick weight loss when what they actually need is weight management. What does weight management truly mean? You've got to start with a few other definitions first. Do you understand what your perfect body weight t...
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Author:
Syd Bousketi
27th November 2009
There's a school of thought that says, "the number don't lie". The assumption is that numbers are facts and facts are always true. So if someone counts the number of times something happens, this gives you a basis from which to estimate the probability of...
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Author:
Todd Jones
23rd November 2009
When the insurance industry was starting out, it grouped everyone together, calculated the likely pay-out on claims and divided that amount among the group members as the premium. This was a simple, straightforward system for spreading the risk. If the ...
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Author:
Grace Oaks
11th November 2009
Over the years, the technology used to calculate car insurance premiums has changed dramatically. Actuaries used to figure out premium levels by hand using books of statistical data. Later, adding machines and early computers ground through the numbers. ...
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Author:
Hugo Schreuder
05th October 2009
Women have a unique advantage over their male counterparts when it comes to buying car insurance. From the time they are able to drive, women are considered better and safer drivers than men. As the parent of any teen knows, insurance for male teens is mu...
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Author:
Brian Higdon
04th September 2009
The boring answer to this age-old riddle is, of course, a red sports car with one of those mufflers that rattles windows at one hundred yards when you rev the engine. Now we've all heard those urban myths, the stories that people who drive red cars are mo...
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Author:
Grace Oaks
29th May 2009
I was planning for a workshop with a group of doctors and was reflecting about the connection between project management and professional staff. I guess I have worked with all types of professionals from doctors to librarians from engineers to social work...
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Author:
Ron Rosenhead