Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses implementing an equity portfolio to support a reserve for long-term liabilities. Also covered will be valuing, pricing implications, cash-flow testing and implications on risk-based capital. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: A Balanced Outlook: The Latest Views of Jack Bogle

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the investment implications of an aging population including the affect on the national savings rate, economic growth, the dependence on social security and opportunities for the insurance industry. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: Investment opportunities are driven by events in the economy and how participants in the financial markets react to those events. This keynote address will highlight current economic themes and their impact on investment opportunities.

Description: The author explains his negative opinion about the requirement to value collateralized mortgage obligations [CMO] using the New York Seven interest rate scenarios.

Description: The Long and Short (Runs) of Investing in Equities by Peter Yoo from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, March 1999, Issue No. 32.

Description: Most investors give convertible securities less prominence than stocks and bonds in their investment portfolios. The attention span given to learning the intricacies and finer points of this hybrid security is quite narrow. In fact, most of us may not even know that a “golden age” existed or whether it has peaked. It’s far beyond our immediate concerns.

Description: A paper on investment results of life insurance companies investing in high-yield, lower quality bonds, September, 1999.

Description: This presentation from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the actuaries' role in matching assets and liabilities, hedging, disintermediation risk and determining the appropriate level of surplus, the future of products with market value cash out adjustments and indexation in the construction of long term debt instruments. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

Description: The article discusses the characteristics of the high-yielding bank loan asset class.