Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session explores both conceptual and practical considerations involved with the formulation and implementation of investment strategy: decision-making framework and processes, measurement of risk and reward, constraints, modeling.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists discuss the process of selecting outside investment managers.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Technical discussion of asset modeling concepts and techniques

Description: This presentation is from session number 3, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists address specific asset modeling issues of current interest, including purpose of model considerations, dynamic reinvestment strategies, and less than rigorous modeling of asset optionality.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed how asset liability management is synonymous with a dynamic financial analysis and quantitative risk management. Topics covered were systems implementations including asset risk exposure optimization given a company-specific set of liabilities and total risk exposure optimization, which includes stochastic analysis of alternative asset and liability strategies.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Discussion of newer and more innovative investment structures and the modeling of these securities in cash-flowing testing and asset/liabilities management analysis.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed the keys to an effective Asset Liability Management process and the conceptual tools that they're using, including value-at-risk, optimization techniques, and holistic ALM.

Description: In session 136 PD of the Washington annual Meeting panelists discuss various methods for measuring investment performance and benchmarking investment performance against liabilities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses financial management in the year 2001, which displayed an economic environment unlike that of any year since the 1960s.

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.