Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the effects of the recent financial crisis and other topics.

Description: Interview with investment actuary Carl Hess, head of Towers Watson global investment practice, on his background and career path.

Description: Gives an overview of the main product features of Indexed Universal Life, and describes marketing factors contributing to high growth in sales.

Description: Section chair Jeff Passmore encourages active participation in the section.

Description: This article is an overview of the Financial Risk Managment of Insurance Enterprises course. The course incorporates financial risk management, asset pricing models and all risks facing an insurance company. The basics are then applied to asset-liability management and valuation.

Description: General comments to section members from incoming chairperson.

Description: In this Chairman’s corner column, Tom Anichini suggests several sources for finding investment related continuing education content. In addition to archived SOA presentations and recordings, other potential sources include pertinent academic and practitioner periodicals, blogs, podcasts, conference and seminar websites, and networks of academic publications and working papers.

Description: Update on activities in the Investment Section for 2016. Asks members to volunteer.

Description: The article discusses the Double for Five Initiative where the Investment Section is doubling the value of membership for the next five years.

Description: This article is a call for work that has been done in stochastic modeling and papers in the area of of stochastic modeling of investment returns in respect of the maturity and mortality guarantees offered on segregated fund and variable annuity products. These will be used in the symposium on stochastic modeling in September 1999 sponsored by the CIA, SOA and Actuarial Foundation.