Description: Recent passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act increased the access that insurers have to low-cost loans advances offered by the individual banks of the Federal Home Loan Bank FHLB system. This article describes the general features of how advance programs work, their potential benefits to insurers and key issues to consider.

Description: Article Ode To A Part Three Student by Adler in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4. Poetry.

Description: Discussed the beginning of the Investment Section of the Society of Actuaries. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Investment Correspondent's report for the Opening session of the 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibit in Boston, MA.

Description: Summary of a speech given by Raymond Chang, the chairman of the board of CI Fund Management Inc., about investing in the Far East.

Description: The article describes the IRS Industry Issue Resolution (IIR) process as applied to the Insurance Industry's Bad Debt Issue. The article describes the IRR process in general, how that process was applied to the bad debt issue, and the safe harbor approach available for insurance companies. The safe harbor is described in LB&I Commissioner Heather Maloy's Directive dated July 30, 2012 (LB&I-4-0712-009).

Description: Financial Accounting Standard Number 91 deals with the calculation of investment income and amortized cost for mortgage backed securities, as well as whole mortgages and callable bonds. The method described in this paper uses a Taylor series to eliminate the storage of all past cash flows, while still providing an accurate FAS 91 adjustment. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This is the abstract of the paper 'A Stochastic Definition of Future Shares'. The traditional definition of actuarial future values and stochastic definition of Ramsay are discussed. A modification of Ramsay's definition is proposed and an application to life insurance reserves is presented.

Description: This presentation, session number 55PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelist look at a variety of capital market structures used to replace maturing guaranteed investment, ‘GIC,’ contract liabilities from accounting, regulatory, rating agency, and investor viewpoints. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

Description: Time Track: Analyzing Historical Asset Returns by Richard Q. Wendt from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, September 2000, Issue No. 35.