Description: Chronically low interest rates are a reflection of macroeconomic trends. Care must be exercised in making assumptions regarding mean reversion.

Description: What Makes the Yield Curve Move?

Description: Table featured in the Futures Research Project Provides Insight into Tomorrow's Economic Environment article in The Actuary. Please see the SOA Website research section for the full report on the Delphi Study of Economic Variables. These variables are 1. Change in CPI, 2. 10 Year T-Bill rates, 3. S&P500 rate of return and 4. Corporate Baa Bond Yields.

Description: Book review : Derek Bok's The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Compensated and How It Affects America. 'An intriguing, very well researched and documented, yet biased, book.'

Description: This discussion at an SOA 1968 Regional Meeting is about currency devaluation in other countries and the effects it has on life insurance, pension funds and company operations in the U.S.

Description: A comprehensive literature review summarizing academic and other papers that draw a connection between population structure and asset class returns (or prices).

Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Discusses demographic and economic change, changes in the market, and the direction of the legislative and legal environment for medical and long term care insurance.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting covers the post-election economy, interest rates, inflation and the deficit. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3