Description: Column on the latest Investment Section activities.

Description: Reports on the breakfast meeting of the investment section at the annual Life and Annuity Symposium May 2015.

Description: Previews the investment sessions at the October 2015 SOA annual meeting in Austin, TX.

Description: Thoughts from Chair of the Investment Section Council

Description: Invites readers to submit topics on the theme of "This Time It's Different. Members will then be invited to submit essays for and against.

Description: This article discusses the implications of the competition actuaries face from “financial engineers.”

Description: This article provides a summary of the content of the sessions at the recent The 2001 Bowles Symposium at Georgia State University. As the author notes, “The Coming Revolution in Insurance Accounting symposium” focused on the development and practical considerations of a new international accounting standard, generally referred to as fair value accounting.

Description: This article is an overview of the presentations made at the Advanced Risk Management Seminar. Some topics were 1 the importance of enterprise risk management 2 how policyholder behavior affects the risks of GMBD riders and 3 credit risk.

Description: Proposes alternatives for estimating the long term interest returns in Indexed Universal Life products. Defends expected return of 20%-45% on hedge budgets.

Description: Describes actuarial approaches used to quantify the benefit to employers of implementing financial wellness programs for their employees.