30 Actuaries and Life settlements The life settlement market is poised for growth. Is the actuarial profession
prepared to keep up?
roger Annin, tim demars, and scott
morrow
coveR: zinA sAunders
36 Weighing the Benefits the economics of obesity surgery Can offering morbidly obese patients
bariatric surgery as a covered
procedure reduce their future health
care costs?
John dawson, with yves-Pierre crémieux
and Arindam Ghosh
44 Mortality Makeover Mortality models, with some tweaking, have worked well
over time. Are current advances in
medicine going to change that?