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: When formulating a personal investment strategy, the application of a disciplined methodology can lead to more rational decision making by the investor. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005

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: The Investment Section will sponsor a seminar on Managing Investment Risk and Returns April 17-18, 1989, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. The seminar will focus on practical techniques for managing investment risk and enhancing returns for a broad array of both interest-sensitive and portfolio products.

Description: Real estate practitioners are increasingly using “economic location,” rather than “geographic location,” as their primary analytic tool. That trend has gained substantial support among academics and practitioners who believe “economic location” is a more effective basis on which to build the analysis of risk in real estate portfolios.

Description: Irish actuary and professor explains his hypothesis that actuaries, as practitioners, are reluctant to adopt the theories of financial economists unless the models on which the theories are based fit the actual data the actuaries have.

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: This article discusses calculating the present value given a set of non-level interest rates and a stream of cash flow emerging from that context. This is the nub of a problem that surfaces in determining the adequacy of a reserve in a manner which fully takes into account both the assets and liabilities involved.

Description: Author's prescient view into the perspectives our corporate leaders will need to adopt in designing financial measures for companies.

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.