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  • What Did We Learn from the Financial Crisis of 2008?
    a sizable amount of liquidity for investments. U.S. treasury bonds have had the reputation of being ... essentially making the cost of money cheaper for the U.S. banks to borrow from. As a result of some aggressive ...

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    • Authors: Shibashish Mukherjee
    • Date: Jan 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Global Perspectives>Global markets; Public Policy
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    which caused a macroeconomic shock. The 1993 to 2000 expansion re- sulted in overinvestment in techn ... (Perhaps we are on the way there in the $17 trillion U.S. Treasury bond market, although I don’t get that ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Paul Conlin
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Financial Decision-Making Theory and the Small Employer Health Insurance Market in Texas
    some evidence to support this. An October 2001 U.S. General Accounting Office Report, entitled “Private ... been around for decades. For the third time, the U.S. House of Representatives has adopted a proposal ...

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    • Authors: Bonnie Albritton
    • Date: Oct 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Practice Forum
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    models on the asset side of the equation. • Mortality is a natural process that conforms to regular ... of past mortality tend to be reliable indicators of the incidence of future mortality. There are ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Nicholas John Macleod
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Invest Fallacies: Active management overall performs different ... benchmarks – e.g. due to differences in the Russell 2000 and the S&P Small Cap 600. However, these explanations ...

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    • Authors: R Inglis, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Investment Fallacies: The "Dollar Bill" Fallacy currency ... extreme case, a purchase against the S&P500 index in July 2000 would yield a nominal taxable gain of ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Gary Thomas
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies
    Investment Fallacies E-book contains 16 topical essays that express the opinions and thoughts ... John Macleod Bitcoin Fallacies By Larry Zhao Gambler’s Fallacy: Probability of Reversion By Kailan Shang ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Leslie Smith
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    In a survey by Ivo Welch (UCLA and Yale) in 2000, only 36 of 102 surveyed financial economists ... Other Issues’, Journal of Business 73-4, October 2000, 501-537. Simulation of Long-Term Stock Returns: ...

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    • Authors: Rowland Davis, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Investment Fallacies: The Myth of Time Diversification currency risk;investment ... Society of Actuaries 38 if then conditions: U(w) = (wλ–1) λ , with λ = -2. With this function ...

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    • Authors: Rowland Davis, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Working Longer to Improve Security: Improving Public Policy
    workers and many years of pension consulting. 2 U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Older Workers: ... Employers,” report to the Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate, GOA 17-536 (June 2017), https://www.gao ...

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    • Authors: Anna M Rappaport, Tim Driver
    • Date: May 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Public Policy