Description: To be financially "well" is unique to an individual. Following a hierarchy of needs is key, along with saving more than the talking heads tell you to.

Description: This page summarizes the annual emerging risks surveys and articles published on the surveys.

Description: This page summarizes the annual emerging risks surveys and articles published on the surveys.

Description: This article discusses that while life style funds make sense for some, a growing minority of individuals successfully make their own investment decisions. It points out that these options should be kept available and that if proper education is provided the informed investor population would grow.

Description: This session 26PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting discusses the soon-to-be-released findings of this working group. The survey presented includes life, P/C, and multi-line companies as well as a comparison to practices in the banking industry and European insurers. This is a repeat session. Please see the Record Volume 27, No 2 of the Toronto Spring Meeting for details of this session.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed how the actuarial profession may contribute to the quantification and management of various types of risks that insurers and other financial service providers assume.

Description: A collection of essays in response to a call for essays aimed to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisors, employers, and other stakeholders.

Description: The purpose of the paper is to facilitate understanding of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and its ramifications on actuarial work.

Description: GDP growth has slowed as numerous headwinds have emerged. This article summarizes a research paper by Mark Alberts and Max Rudolph that addresses reasons why this is so and how risk managers can address using scenarios.

Description: From session 14TS at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000. This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate, along with stress testing.