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Deals dipped slightly compared to 2018’s first quarter; however it is not indicative of overall trend for mergers and acquisitions in North America, according OPTIS Partners’ recent M&A Database report.

The National Business Group on Health, alongside leading companies and industry experts, partner to improve workers’ experience with employer-provided health and well-being plans.

As Strategic Research Actuary for RGA’s Global Research and Data Analytics (GRDA) team, Julianne Callaway researches emerging areas of interest to the insurance industry. Her insights on wellness, wearable technology, genetics, and other strategic research initiatives are shared with clients in presentations, white papers and articles.

Julianne joined RGA in 2013 as an Assistant Actuary in GRDA, where she oversaw research development for the department. Later Julianne was part of RGAx, the wholly-owned innovation incubator subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, for two years where she developed economic models for business concepts and market intelligence in support of innovative business initiatives.

Prior to joining RGA, Julianne spent nine years with Towers Watson, where she was a Senior Actuarial Analyst, responsible for loss reserving for several lines of business, establishing funding amounts for self-insurance funds, developing predictive models, and developing methods to estimate asbestos liabilities for corporations and insurers. She began her actuarial career at American Family Insurance, where she priced business lines insurance and was responsible for rate adequacy in several states.

Julianne has Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees, both in economics, from the University of Missouri – Columbia. She is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries (FSA), an Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS), and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA). A prolific author, she has written and published several articles and white papers on a broad range of insurance topics. She is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is currently a member of the Society of Actuaries’ General Insurance Research

Ted Tozer is a senior fellow in the housing finance program at the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets. He was president of Ginnie Mae from 2010-2017.

Chatbots and other forms of artificial intelligence can help HR professionals manage a large number of applications and deal with high turnover.

Closer examination of seven key segments helps predict attitudes and preferences for wellness programs.

Roger M. Travis is president and CEO of ExperienceLab.

Instead of making quarterly tax payments, retirees have the option of having the payments withheld from their Social Security and pension benefits.

Jason Bobb is senior vice president of Global Sales and Business Development for Canonical.

Bernardo Lustosa is COO of ClearSale. He is also a professor at Sao Paulo's Fundacao Instituto de Administracao, where he instructs MBA candidates in data mining for Fraud Management.