Description: A presentation that summarizes and analyzes the risks catastrophe bond investors are exposed to and have to be aware of.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers surplus management strategies and addresses the topics of risk-based capital RBC, reinsurance, growth and profitability, cost of capital, and required surplus. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This document is an an address presented by the Honorable Dr. Henry Wallich at the April 1976 Washington D.C. meeting on the topic of how to protect savings during a time of inflation.

Description: Recent reports have expressed concern over historically high levels of corporate indebtedness, with an increasing share of investment-grade debt now in the BBB category, just above speculative-grade. This session will explore trends in the corporate debt market, with a focus on the risks and opportunities for portfolios in the current environment.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at mergers and acquisitions in the insurance business. Recent examples and actuarial considerations in M&A transactions are discussed.

Description: This is a short story on the retirement income calculator.

Description: Presenters at session 115PD of the New York Annual Meeting provide an overview of structures used for credit enhancement of GICs as well as an understanding of how financial guarantees work in the GIC market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

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.

Description: In this session, we will explore investment solutions that aim to maintain the long-term viability of a pension plan, with considerations on hedging interest rates, credit, inflation, longevity and other risks, while accounting for the many particularities associated with underlying liabilities and their corresponding ramifications.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting covers securitization of insurance liabilities. Securitization of insurance risk is an alternative risk transfer other than reinsurance based on the idea that investors participate directly in the insurance risk. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.