Description: Investment Fallacies: The Myth of Time Diversification

Description: Investment Fallacies: Future Equity Returns

Description: Panelists provide a primer on Collateralized Mortgage Obligations [CMOs], exploring how they are constructed and why they exist. Session 3 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about GIC alternatives and synthetics. What are the types of alternatives and what are the associated risks and rewards?

Description: The article discusses C1 risks in five areas: 1 the economics of risk, 2 portfolio optimization, 3 policy, 4 risk interaction and 5 institutional aspects of C1 risk.

Description: Read the February 2017 issue of Risks and Rewards published by the Investment Section.

Description: This paper attempts to distill from these various models a practical application of the key principles for reform.

Description: This paper summarizes default experience on bonds from 1900 through 1987. Although the information is more extensive for publicly traded bonds, the paper includes some information on private placements, some of which is not otherwise available.

Description: The object of this paper is to present several aspects on the valuation of bonds which are not usually in textbooks but very important to consider in countries with inflation. The analysis of bonds must consider the economic background, the consequences of the monetary policy and the retrospective and prospective evolution of the particular index of each bond. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Capital gains and losses accounting, Internal sales of investments among portfolios, Equity investment accounting, Internal stripping of securities, Internally manufactured puts and calls, Allocation of taxes and investment expenses among portfolios, Accounting systems needed.