Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about asset segmentation, i.e. segmenting assets among lines of business or liabilities, practical issues involved in the process, and how this enhances asset/liability mangement.

Description: Complete issue of the August 2014 Risk Management newsletter.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a quantitative framework which jointly considers the endowment spending policy and the asset allocation decision a-la Markowitz.

Description: This session is about the methods of projecting long-run stock returns using inflation rates from bond yield curves with incremental returns for risk taking based on historical data and the relationship between concurrent, expected and unexpected inflation rates and the rates of return on common stocks and U.S. government bonds and notes. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.

Description: This report describes trends in asset allocation of major life insurers across eight Asian markets.

Description: This session discussion is about asset/liability matching, risk tolerance versus yield determination and role of insurance company products and investment services. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Our panel of experts discusses different investment strategies for pension plans, expected asset returns, appropriateness of these strategies for use with different types of plans and effects on a plan's annual contribution requirement and pension expense. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 11pd.

Description: The article provides a summary of the Drake Risk & Opportunity Forum held on October 21, 2022. The forum was a hybrid conference that attracted more than 200 attendees from 17 states, two countries, 48 employers, and five universities. Following an introduction by the Zimpleman College of Business Dean, the forum held six sessions. First was an insurance company CRO panel followed by a panel of non-insurance company CROs. Gary Zhu shared his outlook for interest rates and capital markets. The fourth panel discussed insurance capital models. The fifth panel discussed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria when building insurance company investment portfolios. The final session of the day was a discussion about the NAIC, how they operate, and their priorities for the coming year.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on approaches to investing pension assets including real estate, foreign investment, gold, and allocation of assets to various investment categories. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This article discusses the possibility of high inflation down the road. The high levels of debt incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be difficult for many countries to support. Central bank activity is "standing in the gap" but this is not necessarily the optimal solution. Inflation can also become an issue due to contagion coming from less financially stable countries, resulting a crisis of confidence, driving up interest rates.