Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeing describes the venture capital fund life cycle, the risks, benefits, returns and approaches to investing in venture capital companies, leveraged buyouts and the practicalities for insurance company investing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discusses current trends in state regulation of insurance company investments.

Description: This teaching session will examine option-pricing techniques, binomial models, lattice, the hedge portfolio and considerations and reasons for discounting at the short-term rate. It will also include biased probabilities, option-adjusted duration and convexity option-adjusted spread. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: In this session, senior pension and insurance investment professionals will share their thoughts on current investment topics. Attendees will hear about leading edge investment ideas and practices from industry leaders.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session discussed the work of an industry group that is in the process of developing total return benchmarks and universes for the measurement of insurance company investment performance.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Our lecturer presents findings from a research project relating to the Cox, Ingersoll & Ross model of interest rates, including an effective way of pricing general interest rate derivatives and pricing bonds.

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: This session will demonstrate the advantages of approaches to duration matching and cash flow matching. Plan examples and sponsor’s objectives will be presented. An overview of when to choose one approach versus a blend of the two approaches will also be covered.

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: This discussion covered: 1. The extent to which companies' net earned interest rates have risen above their low points from that of several years ago and 2. The NAICs' new method of dividing amortizable bonds into two classes in the valuation of securities