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  • Basics Of Build America Bonds
    majority of these defaults occurred in the health care and housing project finance sectors. The majority ... income tax basis. In return, the issuers receive a direct subsidy for 35 percent of their interest costs ...

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    • Authors: KEITH VINSON MCCARTHY
    • Date: Aug 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
  • Modeling Economic Series Coordinated withInterest Rate Scenarios
    potential future operating conditions. An example of a direct applica- tion of scenario generation is cash flow ... INTEREST RATE SCENARIOS From Page 29 and our primary motivation for this is to recruit investment professionals ...

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    • Authors: Steven Siegel
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation
  • Risks and Rewards Newsletter, February 2003, Issue No. 41
    (Mark Bursinger). We liai- son with the Long Term Care Section (Larry Rubin) and with Continuing Education ... a problem because the problem is not subject to direct experimentation. 3 Analysts are hampered in their ...

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    • Authors: Lawrence N Bader, Nino A Boezio, Paul Donahue, Anson Glacy, Jeremy Gold, David Ingram, Max Rudolph, Peter Tilley, Richard Wendt, Douglas A George, Valentina A Isakina, Lilli Segre Tossani
    • Date: Feb 2003
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • The Stable Value Wrap: Insurance Contract or Derivative? Experience Rated or Not?
    threat of financial ruin due to catastrophic health care ex- penditures by spreading the risk over a large ... investor, and who do not have the right to make direct transfers to money market accounts, there was no ...

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    • Authors: Paul Donahue
    • Date: Jul 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • Risks and Rewards Newsletter, July 2001, Issue No. 37
    sufficient asset reserve? Should product managers care if returns fall short of pricing assumptions? Are ... be described by a rich polynomial function, the primary independent term of which is a parallel shift in ...

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    • Authors: Lawrence N Bader, Nino A Boezio, Paul Donahue, David C Gilliland, Anson Glacy, David Ingram, Peter Tilley, Richard Wendt, Bradley Buechler, Linda Blatchford, Thomas Merfeld, Rob Royall, Victor Canto
    • Date: Jul 2001
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • Risks & Rewards, August 2019, Issue 74
    calibration should be treated with just as much care and review as the underlying actuarial assumptions ... spread of banks in unsecured lending. It is a primary focus of the industry groups to drive consensus ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Risks & Rewards Newsletter, August 2005, Issue No. 47
    taxes and employment related expenses (including day care). • The behavior might be irrational in the “effi- ... theoretical approach—chosen for tractability. The primary theo- retical approach uses the lognormal distribution ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, W Paul McCrossan, Michael J O'Connor, Steven Siegel, Joseph Koltisko, Application Administrator, Barry Freedman, Cees Dert
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • Risk & Rewards, August 2015, Issue 66
    short years ago, Tom An- ichini asked whether I’d care to run for council. That’s roughly a 15 year arc ... professionals. Therefore, there are really three primary ways of begin- ning a private equity program: ...
    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Aug 2015
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • February 2012 issue of Risks & Rewards
    other sections (e.g., pension, futurism, long-term care, etc.) and possibly other professional organizations ... weighted into information technol- ogy and health care sectors. As a result, from a macroeco- nomic point ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Aug 2012
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
  • Risks & Rewards, August 2018, Issue 72
    institu- tional investors have to make. One of the primary goals of the asset allocation process is to construct ... equities to inflation- linked debt results in a direct reduction in exposure to the economic growth ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments