Description: This is intended to serve as a fundamental resource for a basic understanding of ERM, as well as a guide to further study of the subject. Members of the Casualty Actuarial Society have participated in the effort, as well.

Description: Society of Actuaries basic education catalog for Spring, 2005.

Description: This is the complete basic education catalog from the Fall, 2004.

Description: Basic education catalog for Spring 2004.

Description: This Specialty Guide is designed to be a source of information for practitioners interested in: learning more about the subject of Economic Capital - definition, uses, tie-in to RBC and calculations - finding out about current market practices in this area, and getting acquainted with available literature on this topic.

Description: This is the complete basic education catalog from the Fall, 2003.

Description: This specialty guide is a background reading list reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is intended to provide guidance to anyone seeking to gain knowledge regarding ALM, especially with respect to its application to financial security systems such as life or health insurance, property and casualty insurance and pensions.

Description: Basic education catalog for Spring 2003.

Description: Basic education catalog for Spring 2002.

Description: This is the complete basic education catalog from the Fall, 2002.

Description: This is the complete basic education catalog from the Fall, 2001.

Description: Basic education catalog for Spring 2001.

Description: This literature guide is a background reading reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is being published to offer guidance not only to actuaries seeking to gain knowledge on ALM as it relates primarily to life and health insurance, but also to practitioners in the property and casualty insurance and pension fields.

Description: The financial reporting of insurance is necessarily a complicated process because of numerous and stringent regulatory requirements, the inherent difficulty in estimating both the probability and cost of long-term contingent events, product diversity, and new products, such as equity-linked annuities. This literature guide provides the user with a summary of representative sources of current general information for continuing education purposes.

Description: This guide is intended to provide a broad introduction to several performance-oriented products. It distinguishes variable 'equity-linked' life insurance, universal life 'flexible payment and current fixed yields', variable universal life, and current developments in variable annuities 'primarily minimum death benefits'.

Description: This literature guide provides the user with a summary of representative sources of current general knowledge for continuing education purposes.

Description: This guide lists literature sources that an actuary can use to gain knowledge on investments and asset/liability management. It can be viewed as a preliminary road map for the actuary seeking direction to enhance his or her knowledge in these areas. The emphasis of this guide is on fixed-income securities.

Description: Over the last 15-20 years the job of the valuation actuary has become increasingly demanding. This guide lists literature that only addresses requirements and practices for federally licensed Canadian companies.

Description: Generally accepted accounting principles 'GAAP' are those that apply to external financial reporting of publicly owned business enterprises. The principles that constitute GAAP vary between stock and mutual insurers, from product class to product class, and according to the purchase status of the business. This paper highlights additional reading materials that provide concise information regarding GAAP principals.