Description: Investment Fallacies: Bitcoin Fallacies

Description: Discusses the importance of coordinating the trends in investment markets with product characteristics, investment strategies, and asset modeling. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Discusses how surplus should be defined, how it should be invested, and how the rating agencies may respond to various approaches. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: The September 2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter

Description: Asset Adequacy Analysis for the Long-Term Care Product: A Case Study by Amy Pahl from Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2004, Issue No. 13.

Description: This paper discusses both the theoretical and the application aspects of stress testing in managing enterprise risks. Effective stress testing maximizes the risk adjusted enterprise profit by controlling major risks financial, strategic, operational and hazard upon identifying risk metrics and modeling the correlations. A case study is included for demonstration purposes.

Description: This paper defines Distributable Earnings as the generalized pricing and valuation framework for financial contracts containing the requirement to hold capital or reserves in support of the obligations. It examines the Market Value paradigm and its foundation arising from the pricing of fixed income securities. It reconciles these two methods, showing that market value methods ignore mandatory capital and reserve requirements, which carry both risk and cost. The paper makes the case for the Distributable Earnings framework, not Market Value, as the true basis for economic value for these financial contracts. Finally, it concludes that this framework must be employed in risk-management processes, else fail to recognize a significant source of risk.

Description: This is the abstract of the paper Risk Classification by Fuzzy Cluster. In this paper an algorithm for risk classification is proposed. This algorithm is based on the concepts of fuzzy cluster. We test our algorithm with two examples, the results are very promising.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 54PD, from the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 24-27 in New York. Asking the question ‘what's causing a scarcity of capital in the life insurance and life reinsurance industries?’ the panelists discuss emerging sources of capital, and the issues surrounding capital, looking at possible responses from ceding companies, reinsurers, regulators, and rating agencies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 3.

Description: The values of life insurance and annuity liabilities move in opposite directions in response to a change in the underlying mortality. Natural hedging utilizes this to stabilize aggregate liability cash flows. Our study shows empirical evidence that insurers who utilize natural hedging also charge lower premiums than otherwise similar insurers. This indicates that insurers who are able to utilize natural hedging have a competitive advantage. In addition, we show how a mortality swap might be used to provide the benefits of natural hedging to a firm that writes only one of the lines of business.