Description: This article describes the similarities and differences between two forms of risk transfer, then concludes with a discussion of the implications of this difference for enterprise risk management

Description: An Article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 from the chair of the E&R section, Curtis Huntington.

Description: One of the sessions the E&R Section sponsored at the Annual Meeting in New York was titled "The New Math: Unorthodox Methods in Actuarial Science." The whole idea was to present academic results to practitioners who, in turn, could put them to good use.

Description: Everyone is encouraged to submit papers to The Actuarial Practice Forum, a new online journal designed to deliver practical and applicable information to SOA members in the form of useful papers that are of educative value to the general actuarial readership.

Description: Article from the Expanding Horizons newsletter from December 2004 in which the section chair addresses the section and talks about the E&E syllabus and the issue with financial economics and also future activities such as the ARC conference.

Description: This article looks at an extensive integrated collection of financial mathematical modeling packages available in R, a language and environment for statistical computing.

Description: A disscussion of actuar R, an R package for actuarial science, and its facilities in the fields of loss distribution modeling, risk theory and credibility theory.

Description: An article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that discusses the Annual Prize to the author or authors writing the best paper to appear in the North American Actuarial Journal, the leading scientific publication of the Society. It announces the winners of the award, Mary R. Hardy for A Regime–Switching Model of Long-Term Stock Returns,and Phelim P. Boyle, Adam W. Kolkiewicz and Ken Seng Tan, for Valuation of the Reset Options Embedded in Some Equity–Linked Insurance Products.