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  • Investment Risk: The Operational Side
    really why we operate and what we're there to take care of. We really have to protect those assets. We ... colloquially you can call it a clearing firm. The primary business of the firm is operation, so obviously ...

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    • Authors: Ross Bowen, Liam Cheung, Susan Keating, William Bourque
    • Date: May 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Liquidity: How Much is Enough?
    (S&P). Neil is a senior analyst at S&P. He has primary responsibility for the analysis of 20 life insurance ... international insurers. He’s the analyst with primary responsibility for issues relating to liquidity ...

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    • Authors: Peter Tilley, Neil T Strauss, Jane E Kinney
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • 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 ...

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    • 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]
  • Risks & Rewards, August 2019, Issue 74
    calibration should be treated with just as much care and review as the underlying actuarial assumptions ... spread of banks in unsecured lending. It is a primary focus of the industry groups to drive consensus ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • 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 ...

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    • 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
  • 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 ...

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    • 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
  • 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 ...

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    • 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
  • 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 ...

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    • 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
  • 2003-2015 Credit Risk Loss Experience Study: Private Placement Bonds
    holdings, there is no published, industry-wide, direct data from which default loss experience or, more ... discussions with investment professionals, and extreme care was utilized to confirm the data contributions were ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Finance & Investments
  • Cost Of Capital For Mutual Companies
    because of our actuarial assumptions, etc. Our primary goal is to better understand how we put a value ... Under statutory accounting, a policy loan has no direct and immediate impact on the income statement. There ...

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    • Authors: Donald L Gauer, Allan D Greenberg, Edward Jarrett, Kenneth LaSorella
    • Date: May 1989
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments