Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: This article gives details of the demutualization process of The Equitable Life Assurance Society, highlighting the decision process, actuarial issues and regulatory challenges.

Description: This article shows a comparison of the growth rates of the S&P 500 common stock index vs. the U.S. Consumer Price Index over various 5 and 10 year periods.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 talks about the potential opportunity for actuaries working on Wall Street.

Description: This article looks at the recent trend of mergers and acquisitions between very large organizations. The driving forces, issues involved and keys to success are discussed. The role of the actuary in this process is also reviewed.

Description: This article reports on a meeting of the Finance Practice Area and the issues on which they are focusing.

Description: This article summarizes a recent Hartford Actuaries Club workshop which examined Life Company Mergers and Acquisitions. Howard L. Rosen, FSA, addressed acquisitions and Charles C. DeWeese, FSA, reviewed mergers.

Description: In this article, the author provides an extension to 1978 of his Index of Common Stock Values that appeared in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries, XXII, 197. He has also calculated the Compound Annual Growth Rates of Average Common Stock Values for the entire 107-year period.

Description: The article discusses indexed-linked securities in the United Kingdom and the relationship between the prices of index-linked securities and interest rates, common stock prices and a combination of these.

Description: This article discusses the potential issues with a company's surplus due to currency fluctuations.