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Through a team of professionals ranging from actuaries to clinicians, technology specialists to plan administrators, we offer unparalleled expertise in employee benefits, investment consulting, healthcare, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance. News 11 November 2014 — Wired The biggest risk facing insurers today? Old-guard IT 06 November 2014 — ThinkAdvisor Managing risk to create retirement income See all news Solutions Analytics & Technology Healthcare Insurance Investment Retirement & Compensation Risk Management & Financial Services STAR Solutions - NAVI Reduce risk calculation time and gain insight into risk exposure. CORAL: A roadmap for ACA CORAL helps you quickly estimate relative values of health benefit plans. InvestMap A sophisticated tool that enables DC plan sponsors to deploy an age-based, asset-allocation strategy. 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Our Company Who We Are Company History Contact Us News & Events Consultants News & Events In the news Press releases Events All topics All topics Healthcare Employee Benefits and Investment Insurance Risk Management and Financial Services Worldwide Go to: Brazil Worldwide United States United Kingdom Australia Switzerland Germany Spain France Ireland India Italy Japan Korea Netherlands Poland Romania Milliman MARA Milliman MARA MedInsight MedInsight Actuarial Software Previous 1 of 10 Next 1-20 of 181 11 November 2014 — Wired The biggest risk facing insurers today? Old-guard IT The insurance industry has long lagged behind in IT adoption, even though insurers’ computing demands are on the rise. This Wired article profiles Milliman’s efforts to reverse the trend with its innovative systems transformation project for the U.K.’s Phoenix Group. 06 November 2014 — ThinkAdvisor Managing risk to create retirement income In turning its attention from accumulation to decumulation, the 401(k) industry created new products to solve income needs, but they came with significant disadvantages, according to the presenters from Milliman at Schwab Impact’s session on retirement income. 24 October 2014 — The Business Times Insurers brace for impact of new risk-based capital rules In this article, Milliman's Richard Holloway comments on the potential effects that Singapore's developing RBC 2 framework will have on insurers. 14 October 2014 — Asia Insurance Review Actuarial feature for EAAC: What more can actuaries do? In addition to offering analytical models that pinpoint the uncertainties a business faces, actuaries can also help clients better understand risks and how to manage them. 17 September 2014 — The New York Times With new health law, shopping around can be crucial This article about health insurance prices in the post-ACA marketplace includes a quote from Milliman consultant Paul Houchens. 11 August 2014 — The Wall Street Journal Welcome to the world of 'pension smoothing' In this article, Milliman’s John Ehrhardt provides perspective on how pension smoothing provisions built into the Senate Highway Investment, Job Creation, and Economic Growth Act of 2012 may affect corporate pension funded status. 30 June 2014 — Best's News Service Singapore likely to benefit the most from ASEAN economic community, industry watchers say Singapore is likely to benefit the most from the growth of insurance business anticipated from the proposed Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community in 2015, thanks to the market's relatively sophisticated development, according to insurance consultants. 21 May 2014 — The Washington Post Health insurance coverage now costs $23,215 for a typical family The typical cost of health care for a family of four with employer-based insurance this year is $23,215, and that amount has more than doubled in the past ten years. What is the role of the Affordable Care Act in these costs and what is the role of employers and employees in controlling these costs? 21 May 2014 — Business Week Medical costs went up 5 percent last year, and that's good news Medical costs for a typical American family with employer health benefits increased 5 percent in the past year—the smallest jump since the Milliman Medical Index debuted to track these costs more than a decade ago. Business Week reports that though it is good news that the cost increases are getting smaller, the overall costs is still a major factor in company budgets. 01 May 2014 — Wall Street Journal Obama administration says 28% of health-law enrollees are 18 to 34 years old Only a little more than one quarter of new healthcare enrollees are in the prized 18 to 34 year old age demographic, but age doesn't tell the whole story of health or healthcare costs. 25 April 2014 — The European Financial Review Pension Plans for Expatriates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Sharing the Burden Milliman expertise on pension products and populations in the Arab world informs this article on the GCC market. 02 April 2014 — Pensions & Investments Corporate pension plans see big funding jump in 2013 despite lower contributions Strong investment returns and lower liabilities resulting from higher discount rates produced a significant improvement in the funding ratios of U.S. corporate defined benefit plans in 2013. 01 April 2014 — National Public Radio: All Things Considered Everybody has a price: Why this 'invincible' chose insurance How the Affordable Care Act is changing the lives of doctors and patients, and how will new patients affect the existing healthcare system? 28 March 2014 — Wall Street Journal Health insurers make late push to sign up young Insurers are pressing ahead with a final marketing push hoping to reach "young invincibles" and bring as many young, healthy customers as possible to their rolls. 20 March 2014 — Washington Post Women are better than men at enrolling in Obamacare Although there are still some major unanswered questions about Obamacare enrollment, it is clear that women are signing up at much faster rates than men are. For the past three months of HHS enrollment reports, women have accounted for 55 percent of total signups. Several factors are driving this trend, including the new requirement that insurers ignore gender when they price plans, meaning women will get a better deal. 12 March 2014 — Reuters Insurers wary of Obamacare unknowns as they plan for 2015 Insurers must describe their health plans and proposed rates for 2015 to state and federal regulators starting in April and May—but before they do, some of the most critical factors that go into plan design and pricing decisions may be unknown, from the size of the doctor and hospital networks that the federal government will approve to final 2014 enrollment figures and the relative health of their new plan holders. 28 February 2014 — Wall Street Journal Health plans scramble to size up new customers Insurers are rushing to gather health information from the new customers they won on public marketplaces in a high-stakes outreach effort crucial to their hopes of profiting from the health-care law. Health plans need to know the health status of those signing up for coverage so they can project whether the costs are likely to outrun the premiums coming in and decide whether to keep offering plans. Now that new enrollees don’t have to disclose pre-existing conditions to buy insurance, insurers are reaching out, in an effort to quickly identify the health status of new enrollees. 24 February 2014 — Asia Insurance Review ASEAN: Majority believe rule harmonisation benefits region According to Milliman's online survey about the forthcoming ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), seventy percent of responding life insurance executives believe that there are benefits to common regulation across all 10 member states of the regional grouping. 22 January 2014 — PLANSPONSOR Running the fund: Fair share Many mutual funds pay revenue sharing to subsidize plans’ administrative expenses, but participants subsidize administrative expenses to varying degrees. Milliman principal Douglas Conkel comments on ways to make the administrative fees paid by participants uniform. 16 January 2014 — CNN Money Wanted: Young adults enrolling in Obamacare Raising the overall rate of younger enrollees will be tough, but it's also important to attract the right kind of younger Americans, said Milliman principal and health insurance actuary Jim O'Connor. 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