Description: In it’s insurance capital model, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has established criteria to adopt the NAIC’s stochastic approach to variable annuity risk. This approach, which replaces existing static charges, better reflects the products’ risk.

Description: In insurance companies and pension plans currency risk arises when a company has future obligations in one currency and investments in another currency. The question that is often asked is whether this currency risk should hedged or not.

Description: Feature article discussing the use of stochastic volatility models in the pricing of investments and options.

Description: Feature article about: one of the significant contributions of modern academic finance has been to introduce the concept of stochastic investment forecasting

Description: Describes progress of the 134 portfolios entered in the 2016 contest. Categories are: Create Alpha, Accumulation, and Drawdown.

Description: Argues renewable energy will displace fossil fuels, leading to investment opportunities and risks

Description: Case study evaluating CME Group US Treasury futures and options as a key rate duration (KRD) adjustment tool.

Description: The author explains his negative opinion about the requirement to value collateralized mortgage obligations [CMO] using the New York Seven interest rate scenarios.

Description: This articles notes that there are fewer small insurance companies. It discusses how the impact of mergers and acquisitions and new regulations affect the declining number of small insurance companies.

Description: This article describes the increasing problems in the product filing and forms approval process under state regulation. It also describes the conclusions and product filing uniformity vision that includes the formation of CARFRA which stands for Coordinated Advertising, Rate and Form Review Authority.