Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about an intercompany study on credit risk of private placement bonds and commercial mortgages. The development of the study, results for the 1986-1989 period, ongoing nature of the study, and company leverage were discussed.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This panel discussed the problems resulting from measuring insurance companies' investment performance, and they described a survey that was created to address some of these problems.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses various investment risks, monitoring investment performance compared to objectives, measuring investment performance of GIC's, cash flow forecasting and investment programs and objectives. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers the collapse of the real estate market in the early 1990's and the problems it created in cash flow testing and valuation work. It also covers an integrated asset/liability model and the applications beyond cash flow testing including an example for an SPDA.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses financial futures and options, an example of using options to hedge a risk, investment optimization and taxation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session panelists discussed new investment options including an overview of traditional assets, an asset-allocation framework, specific markets' risk characteristics and some implications for risk-based capital for asset management. The discussion included derivatives, fixed income alternatives, and equity alternatives.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this interactive presentation, the panel fielded investment questions from the audience. Prepared and audience questions included: 1. What is the FLUX measure? What's it supposed to do for regulators and insurance companies? 2. What sort of things really went on that caused the difficulties at Executive Life, First Capital, and Mutual Benefit? 3. What are some examples of hedges that you would recommend for a $100 million SPDA portfolio to try and combat the effects of rising interest rates? 4. Given the changes that experienced in interest rates, what's that been doing to the durations of typical interest-sensitive liabilities? 5. What do you do to hedge with derivatives or whatever if interest rates are going down? 6. What level of asset-liability matching do companies usually target? How do regulators view this?

Description: This article briefly summarizes the history of the Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) tax regime. Then it provides a detailed description of the PFIC proposed regulations issued in July of 2019.

Description: This article discusses Asset-Backed Securities as a low volatility alternative to Intermediate Government Bonds.

Description: Financial Accounting Standard Number 91 deals with the calculation of investment income and amortized cost for mortgage backed securities, as well as whole mortgages and callable bonds. The method described in this paper uses a Taylor series to eliminate the storage of all past cash flows, while still providing an accurate FAS 91 adjustment. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.