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  • Taking Stock: No Pain No Gain, orWhat They Did Not Tell You about Goldilocks
    Taking Stock: No Pain No Gain, orWhat They Did Not Tell You about Goldilocks This article discusses world economic and financial trends and how people can be fooled into thinking nothing can go ...

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    • Authors: Nino A Boezio
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Global Perspectives>Global markets
  • The Long and Short Runs of Investing in Equities
    The Long and Short Runs of Investing in Equities The Long and Short (Runs) of Investing in Equities by Peter Yoo from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, March 1999, Issue No. 32. Financial economics; ...

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    • Authors: Peter Yoo
    • Date: Mar 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Finance & Investments>Investments
  • 2020: What are the Takeaways for Actuaries?
    2020: What are the Takeaways for Actuaries? After a very challenging year, actuaries need to look back and consider the lessons learned. Have we returned to where we were, or have we moved on to ...

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    • Authors: Daniel B Finn
    • Date: Jun 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Economics>Macroeconomics; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital markets; Enterprise Risk Management>Portfolio management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM
  • Subject to Revision
    Subject to Revision The article discusses how well the GDP Gross Domestic Product reflects the true state of the economy. It also describes the process of calculating the GDP advance estimate, ...

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    • Authors: Abbigail J Chiodo, Michael T Owyang
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics
  • Behavioral Finance
    Behavioral Finance This article gives an overview and explanation of behavioral finance. Behavioral economics;Capital markets=Stock market; 11000 10/1/2003 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Douglas A George
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Finance & Investments
  • Why We Need To Transform Our View Of Risk
    Why We Need To Transform Our View Of Risk Feature article summarizing a talk given by Andrew Lo at the SOA 2009 Annual Meeting on the credit crisis and why risk management failed to stop the ...

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    • Authors: Gary Hatfield
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Enterprise Risk Management
  • New Research on Pension Assumptions
    New Research on Pension Assumptions Highlights a new research paper on determining discount rates for pension plans, by John Turner. The paper breaks new ground on deciding on the appropriate ...

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    • Authors: Victor Modugno
    • Date: Aug 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics
  • Taking Stock: What Ever Happened to the "Invisible Hand"?
    Taking Stock: What Ever Happened to the "Invisible Hand"? The article makes reference to how the intervention by government agencies and institutions into the financial marketplace ...

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    • Authors: Nino A Boezio
    • Date: Feb 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Economics>Financial markets; Economics>Macroeconomics; Enterprise Risk Management>Strategic risks; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Enterprise Risk Management>Systemic risk
  • An Analyst’s Retrospective on Investment Risk Management
    An Analyst’s Retrospective on Investment Risk Management This article provides a retrospective on investment risk management while highlighting actuarial tools used by portfolio risk managers.

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    • Authors: James Ramenda
    • Date: Aug 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Finance & Investments>Portfolio management - Finance & Investments
  • A 99-Year Prospective Test of an Interest-Rate Theory
    A 99-Year Prospective Test of an Interest-Rate Theory The author describes a theory of long-term interest-rate trends, originally propounded in 1899 by actuary Charlton T. Lewis, and how well the ...

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    • Authors: Daniel Case
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Macroeconomics