Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about fixed income derivatives, their uses, and their implications with respect to RBC, IMR, disclosure, and FAS 115 hedge accounting.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about raising capital for mutual companies. Subjects discussed: 1. Access to capital markets. 2. Use of surplus debentures. 3. Demutualization. 4. Securitization. 5. Sale/leaseback of home office. 6. Sales of blocks of business. 7. Rating agency perspectives.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the various ways a mutual company might attempt to access the capital markets and the various procedures and instruments that might be employed to acquired capital.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting focuses on the issues involved in building a scenario generator. It covers the data set used to develop and calibrate the generator as well as a discussion of different approaches and their features. Implementation is addressed along with potential pitfalls.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. The panelists discussed approaches for measuring risk across risk elements on a consistent basis and discuss the methods for aggregating results and measuring diversification.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 54PD, from the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 24-27 in New York. Asking the question ‘what's causing a scarcity of capital in the life insurance and life reinsurance industries?’ the panelists discuss emerging sources of capital, and the issues surrounding capital, looking at possible responses from ceding companies, reinsurers, regulators, and rating agencies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about securization of assets such as premium streams, policy loans or future premium loadings. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: Presented at August 2011 Actuarial Research Conference. Provides examples of how to model extremes in weather utilizing Monte Carlo simulations and discusses how to create a derivative financial instrument that pays-off if target extreme weather conditions are met.

Description: This discussion on interest rate and investments looks at reinvesting when faced with capital losses, issues associated with investing in stocks, the effect of taxes on investment policy, the level of policy loans, the effect of inflation, and interest assumptions for new policies.