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  • 2017 Annual Meeting; Exhibit Opening Session
    2017 Annual Meeting; Exhibit Opening Session Investment Correspondent's report for the ... Exhibit Opening Session Investment Correspondent's report for the Opening session of the 2017 Annual ...

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    • Authors: Kelly Featherstone
    • Date: Feb 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Opportunities at the FHLB Advance Window
    permits the banks to borrow at rates comparable to U.S. Treasury obligations and thereby make advances to ... yield curve with commensurate yield pick-up. For annuity writers in particular, FHLB advances can be an ...

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    • Authors: Anson Glacy
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
  • Inflation vs. Deflation (US vs. Europe/Japan)
    RISKS & REWARDS | 35 Inflation vs. Deflation (U.S. vs. Europe/Japan) By Allan Levin the oil price ... The overall conclusion was that the recovering U.S. economy will create wage pressures, and thus higher ...

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    • Authors: Allan Levin
    • Date: Aug 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital markets; Finance & Investments>Investments
  • What Your Manager Won’t Tell You about Investment Benchmarks
    What Your Manager Won’t Tell You about Investment Benchmarks How to be prepared for a meeting ... manager and judging your investment portfolio's performance by comparing it to a relevant benchmark ...

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    • Authors: Alton Cogert
    • Date: Aug 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset allocation; Finance & Investments>Investments
  • Middle Way" for Long Term Interest Rates
    percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP); now it is approximately 25 percent of U.S. GDP, or approximately ... “may not be an exact reversion to precrisis level(s).” He observes that the deep structural changes to ...

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    • Authors: Suhrid Swaminarayan
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Economics>Macroeconomics; Finance & Investments>Investments
  • Taking Stock: Are We Setting Ourselves Up for High Inflation?
    dramatically over the course of several hours. The U.S. Federal Reserve announced another policy initiative ... will result in keeping interest rates low. The U.S. Federal Reserve for example (as shown in Figure ...

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    • Authors: Nino A Boezio
    • Date: Jun 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset allocation; Finance & Investments>Banking - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Economic capital; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Portfolio management - Finance & Investments; Public Policy
  • 2016 Investment Symposium: Sentimentally Speaking
    20 | AUGUST 2016 RISKS & REWARDS Table A: 2016 Investment Symposium Sentiment Survey—Part ... and their yield curve outlook is summarized in Table A. Focusing solely on the 30-year yield re- sponses ...

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    • Authors: Frank Grossman
    • Date: Aug 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
  • 30-Year Treasury—Trick or Treat?
    1997 3.439 1.967 1998 3.331 2.187 1999 3.233 2.414 2000 2.992 2.629 1Q/2001 2.966 2.651 Bond Market There ... 30-year Treasury futures to hedge their long position(s). This contract is now in jeopardy. Traders are now ...

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    • Authors: David C Gilliland
    • Date: Feb 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
  • The Importance of Making Things More Complex
    sits there smiling, loving all of the atten- tion he`s getting as the cartoon shows that all he hears is ... ” When the debt ceiling was in fact raised, the U.S. stock market actually declined 15 percent in the ...

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    • Authors: Steven Scoles
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
  • Asset-Backed Securities as a Low Volatility Alternative to Intermediate Government Bonds
    the index is less than 1/10th of 1 percent.8 The table below analyzes 10 years of data for the period ending ... than does investment in the Government Index. The table below will include data that adjusts for the differ- ...

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    • Authors: Paul Donahue, Rick Wilson, Lisa Reed
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments