Description: Discussion of interest rates and investments. The forum looked at the outlook for interest rates on life insurance funds, new developments for the investment of life insurance funds, common stock investments, inflation, and the nature and extent of the valuation problem created by direct investment private placement.

Description: This article analyzes the events leading to low interest rates and recommends careful asset/liability management and risk analysis to address future challenges with interest rates.

Description: Investment Fallacies: On the Validity of Common Portfolio Return Assumptions

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

Description: Investment Fallacies: Extended periods of robust macroeconomic growth are healthy for investing.

Description: This discussion focuses on investments and the outlook for interest earnings from the year 1961.

Description: This articles explores the notion of whether the old rules and paradigms of investment strategy and caution may no longer be applicable in today’s financial environment, because things were “different this time.”

Description: Investment Fallacies: The "Dollar Bill" Fallacy

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fable of the Storyteller and the Market

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting Discusses evaluating yield needs and whether the expected net return will outweigh the RBC/rating agency penalty of added surplus requirement, the effect of factoring in volatility, the utility of using assets with high RBC requirements, and the amount limits on various assets.