Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: This articles gives an overview of the recent Investment Actuary Symposium.

Description: Chairperson's column for the May 2019 edition of NewsDirect.

Description: In this article, the author provides an extension to 1978 of his Index of Common Stock Values that appeared in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries, XXII, 197. He has also calculated the Compound Annual Growth Rates of Average Common Stock Values for the entire 107-year period.

Description: A feature article discussing the financial opportunities of investing in gold.

Description: Discount rate curve construction has been a topic of renewed interest following recent changes in financial reporting standards. Interpolation is a key component of curve construction and can be conducted via an assortment of methods. This article explores six popular interpolation techniques and assesses how they perform with regards to desirable features of such methods: continuity of forwards, stability and locality, simplicity, and market consistency.

Description: Financial illiteracy has been identified as a major obstacle to effective retirement planning for Americans. Anna Rappaport’s article provides actuaries with helpful ideas about ways to make the public more aware of the increasing need for financial literacy and some of the resources currently available to help individuals.

Description: This article discusses the details of what happened in equity repo in 2013.

Description: This article discusses the impact of rising interest rates on annuity writers and life insurers and the risk management challenges it presents. Falling interest rates were addressed as well.