Description: This paper develops a new technique, which allows the analyst to maximally use all thte historical interest rate information available in forecasting interest rates. Interest rates' daily change do not follow a stationary random process over long time periods. Instead, the process is comprised of stationary periods, each a few years long, with relatively short transitional periods between different stationary periods.

Description: 2011 SOA Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This paper reviews a risk management theory that deals with correlated, non-normally distributed factors, and then applies risk management techniques to the U.S. steel industry using futures contract hedging.

Description: This Task Force was charged to develop and understanding and quantification of risks of loss from the combination of C-1, C-2, C-3 and C-4 risks and the implications for insurer financial management. The Task Force concluded that analysis of cash flows would be the key to addressing these matters. This report is a series of papers prepared by various individuals on cash-flow analysis approaches to addressing these issues.

Description: Feature article discussing how activity with respect to Solvency II is increasing in the United States.

Description: A presentation at the Actuarial Research Conference in August 2006 in Montreal. This paper discusses the Basel VaR Value at Risk test of a bank's VaR model. It proposes an alternative, Quality Control of Risk Measures QCRM Hypothesis test. The alternative is more likely to reject an incorrect VaR model.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the most reasonable profit measures and how they can be interpreted in various environments.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the entitled paper.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. The stated goal of this paper is to describe the general idea of risk appetite, its implementation framework and the process to set it within a bank with a strong focus on the interactions with other processes such as planning and control, performance evaluation and communication.

Description: Statistics show that the risk of fatality associated with motorcycle crashes far exceeds that of automobiles hereby Connecticut introduced mandatory motorcycle safety training. This paper develops a unifying framework to quantify the effectiveness of such mandatory programs and to translate this in terms of a possible insurance rate reduction.

Description: This paper identifies some of the special ERM considerations that a corporation which has employees who are members of a multi-employer pension plan, MEPP, should include in its ERM program. The focus of the paper is on the MEPP as an entity and tools to be used in its ERM. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.