Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This teaching session introduced Course 230 to seasoned actuaries who missed the opportunity to study ALM material on their road to Fellowship. The focus of this session was to expose the various subjects covered, identify reading materials, and highlight a few topics.

Description: U.S. bond markets have undergone dramatic changes due to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the COVID-19 pandemic. In taking a retrospective view, we can see that bond markets, viewed through the lens of major bond indices, have been evolving for quite some time. Within this paper, TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM) will explore underlying changes that have occurred within the U.S. Corporate Bond Index, a sub-component of the larger U.S. investment grade bond market, over the past decade. We will highlight key structural changes that have occurred within bond markets and why they are noteworthy

Description: Sustainable operations under changes in accounting principles and solvency standards

Description: Frank Redington, the author of the article, reminiscenses of the origin of immunisation beginning in 1951.

Description: This guide lists literature sources that an actuary can use to gain knowledge on investments and asset/liability management. It can be viewed as a preliminary road map for the actuary seeking direction to enhance his or her knowledge in these areas. The emphasis of this guide is on fixed-income securities.

Description: How to set asset assumption, at the cycle or through the cycle and other considerations

Description: This paper investigates how the concepts of asset-liability matching can be used to shape investment strategy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This literature guide is a background reading reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is being published to offer guidance not only to actuaries seeking to gain knowledge on ALM as it relates primarily to life and health insurance, but also to practitioners in the property and casualty insurance and pension fields.

Description: This presentation outlines strategies for optimal return on bonds and presents the advantages of liability driven investing. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: This paper looks at the problem of valuing and managing the ALM risks associated with insurance liabilities that are too long to be matched by available investments. Two options were explored and the paper concludes by arguing that the Static Control Model leads to more useful ALM strategies for long liabilities.