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Where Did All the Mergers and Acquisitions Go?
and product range. It brought them the long- term care and some market distribution that it didn't have ... business has been a primary driver on the life insurance side, and long-term care Where Did All the ...- Authors: John Nigh, Laird D Zacheis, Stephen Fromm
- Date: May 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Hedging and Other Mitigation Techniques
wrong. Make sure the data you’re getting from your direct writers is current. On the whole issue of internal ... FAS 133 mark-to-market liability for both the direct writer and the reinsurer. A little later I’ll ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Kenneth Mungan
- Date: Sep 2004
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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F-585 Light Investment
strategic planning, and investment management. The primary objective of this track is to enable actuaries ... adopt a jobber style of trading. However, the primary source of revenue and profit for trading rooms ...- Authors: Michael Gabon, Charles L Gilbert
- Date: May 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Qualifications; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Finance & Investments
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Benchmarking Investment Performance
The steps to compliance are very simple, very direct and logical. First of all, you need to construct ... one is very difficult. Think about a long- term care product. How do you create a benchmark that matches ...- Authors: Anson Glacy, Scott S Hartz, William H Panning
- Date: May 2003
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Securitized Assets - Cash Flow Traits
modeled traditionally, but are worth looking at. The primary one is the economy. The economy is difficult to ... more. 1. Interest Differential - There are two primary forces that model the prepayment speeds: either ...- Authors: Paul Haley, Michel Perreault, Peter A Minton, W David Woolford
- Date: Apr 1991
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Demutualization
them. 2. Stock ownership provides easier, more direct, and more substantial access to the public equity ... half of all the surplus remaining after you take care of the dividend prospects in the closed branch.- Authors: Ira Friedman, David H Jungk, James H MacNaughton, Application Administrator, Walter Shur
- Date: Apr 1985
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Public Policy
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Does An Actuarial Bias Lead To Equity Investment?
transparency, encourages equity holdings. The primary cause of opacity is pension actuarial science, ... is disguised by the present system but it is a direct implication of transparent accounting and arbitrage ...- Authors: Jeremy Gold, Ethan Kra, Zvi Bodie
- Date: May 2001
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement
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Managing Currency Risks
at First Chicago. In the first instance, our primary goal is to understand the risks that we are getting ... cleady needsto be lookedat with a fair amount of care, becausethe usualassumptionsfor the commercialbusinesslaw ...- Authors: Camilo Salazar, Richard D Long, Steve R Lindo
- Date: Apr 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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GICS and Other Insurance Company Products - Are They Still Alive?
Variable assets are those that involve some more very direct participation in the capital market volatility ... Dimensions .= PartidpatingIndexed _ _-_---_ J I (Direct Rxed Tmdmon_n_t / _- . _. Product- / BankBalance ...- Authors: Joseph J Buff, Daryle G Johnson, Judith Markland
- Date: May 1992
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement
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U.S. Federal Income Taxes
long range tax hill, although that is not the primary focus of this open forum. During 1978 and 1979 ... that they are treated too favorably compared to direct investments and taxable savings such as bank accounts ...- Authors: Charles G Bentzin, Stephen D Bickel, Albert P Burgess, Harold Cherry, James W Dederer, John H Elken, Ardian Gill, Ralph H Goebel, Allan D Greenberg, Douglas N Hertz, Carroll R Hutchinson, Jeffrey Miller, Richard Minck, Robert E Rich, Alan W Sibigtroth
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Life Insurance; Reinsurance