Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium luncheon speech that discusses the demine of the junk bond market and other asset value problems.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses real estate investments, mortgages and equities. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting looks at issues associated with historically low interest rates from the perspectives of new product development, an investment professional and a corporate view. Included is a discussion of alternative investments ane their risk/return trade offs.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss identifying the different equity market risk exposures of insurance companies. How insurance companies can measure these exposures and means they can use to manage and hedge these exposures is also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses financial futures and options, an example of using options to hedge a risk, investment optimization and taxation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses synthetic GICs, an overview of what a wrap is, the product development and investment implications, and the current regulatory environment. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: [Title should have been 'Communication by Actuaries WITH Investment Professionals ....'] Actuaries working with investments must communicate not only with investment professionals, but also with senior managers and board members with non-financial backgrounds. Panelists show and critique examples of communicating such information using statistics and graphs. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 136PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: The optimal degree of integration and/or coordination of these two functions is examined by presentation of diverse opinions and actual experiences. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. An investment manager discusses investment strategy for a disability insurer and a rating agency representative and a stock analyst describe how disability insurers are evaluated for risk profile and other issues.

Description: This presentation considers a stochastic model for a target benefit pension fund in continuous time.