Description: This Guide lists sources that the actuary may use to gain knowledge on investments and asset/liability management. Its purpose is to make available a preliminary road map for the actuary seeking direction to enhance his or her knowledge in these areas.

Description: This specialty guide is a background reading list reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is intended to provide guidance to anyone seeking to gain knowledge regarding ALM, especially with respect to its application to financial security systems such as life or health insurance, property and casualty insurance and pensions.

Description: The financial reporting of insurance is necessarily a complicated process because of numerous and stringent regulatory requirements, the inherent difficulty in estimating both the probability and cost of long-term contingent events, product diversity, and new products, such as equity-linked annuities. This literature guide provides the user with a summary of representative sources of current general information for continuing education purposes.

Description: This literature guide provides a basic grounding in a wide range of reinsurance matters for a variety of products and purposes.

Description: Lists literature which provides a good grounding in individual disability income: markets, product design, pricing, underwriting, claim management, reinsurance, morbidity experience, and reserves.

Description: This literature guide provides a basic grounding in policyholder dividends and other nonguaranteed elements in individual life insurance and annuities in Canada and the U.S. Participating insurance is most often offered by mutuals in the U.S. and by both mutual and stock companies in Canada.

Description: The purpose of this literature guide is to provide the reader with sources of information ranging, from introductory to advanced, in the areas of LTC insurance design, marketing, pricing, and valuation.

Description: The questions in this study note for Society of Actuaries Exam MLC Models for Life Contingencies were previously presented in study note MLC-09-08. The questions in this study note have been edited for use under the 2012 learning objectives. Some questions were not applicable to the 2012 learning objectives and these questions were removed. Some of the questions in this study note are taken from past SOA examinations.

Description: In actuarial practice there is notation and terminology that varies by country, by application, and by source. The purpose of this study note is to present notation and terminology that will be used on the Society of Actuaries Models for Life Contingencies [MLC] examination for situations where notation or terms may not be common to all sources and notation or terms that are unique to the MLC examination.

Description: This literature guide provides a basic grounding for product development actuaries.