Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting covers new fixed income investments and traditional investments and investments suitable for pension and savings funds. Discussions include investments such as mortgage-backed securities, financial futures, stripped treasuries, covered calls, discount bonds and junk bonds. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This presentation from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the actuaries' role in matching assets and liabilities, hedging, disintermediation risk and determining the appropriate level of surplus, the future of products with market value cash out adjustments and indexation in the construction of long term debt instruments. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

Description: This panel discussion presented at the April 1976 SOA meeting in Washington D.C. presents opinions and information related to investment policy in a changing economy.

Description: This discussion focuses on the changing pattern of life insurance investing into public utilities, railroads, real estate, mortgages, corporate bonds and common and preferred stocks. This session also looks at the importance of the investment department, the impact on policyholder earnings, direct placement investing and a history of stock market performance since 1918. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This teaching session will examine option-pricing techniques, binomial models, lattice, the hedge portfolio and considerations and reasons for discounting at the short-term rate. It will also include biased probabilities, option-adjusted duration and convexity option-adjusted spread. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. An investment manager discusses investment strategy for a disability insurer and a rating agency representative and a stock analyst describe how disability insurers are evaluated for risk profile and other issues.

Description: This discussion is on asset management for an insurance company, including issues of varying investment strategies for different product lines through various asset segmentation approaches, management of the assets supporting surplus, and asset/liability risk management considerations

Description: The optimal degree of integration and/or coordination of these two functions is examined by presentation of diverse opinions and actual experiences. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This session will demonstrate the advantages of approaches to duration matching and cash flow matching. Plan examples and sponsor’s objectives will be presented. An overview of when to choose one approach versus a blend of the two approaches will also be covered.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about applications of the capital asset pricing model in the fixed-income environment, in the international investment environment, and in the property/casualty environment. Topics addressed: • Single-index model. • Multiple-index model. • Impact on risk.