Description: This article reports on a meeting of the Finance Practice Area and the issues on which they are focusing.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 is an extract from a recently discovered Dead Sea Scroll regarding language to be included in a prospectus to provide potential investors with an adequate basis for judging the offering.

Description: This article describes the Investment Year Method for allocation of general portfolio investment income and demonstrates the equivalence of a fixed index or declining index system.

Description: Arguments for establishing a monetary system based on an aggregate commodity standard.

Description: 20 years ago the author suggested that insurers invest a substantial part of their reserves in equities as an inflation hedge. Article discusses how equities have performed relative to inflation, in retrospect, and contemplates the future.

Description: This article shows a comparison of the growth rates of the S&P 500 common stock index vs. the U.S. Consumer Price Index over various 5 and 10 year periods.

Description: In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the practical application of immunization theory to North American Funds. There is a lack of literature on this subject and this article is written to give a clear and concise description of the theory, and of its role in the framing of investment policy.

Description: This article is about equity real estate and how its becoming an important part of investment profiles.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the report on Insurance Holding Companies recently published by the New York Insurance Departmentconcerning surplus levels. The author questions whether a complicated mathematical approach using risk theory will produce a better result than traditional rules of thumb and experience.

Description: Article Society Seminars by Adams in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2