Description: The recent financial crisis created incentives to review investment practices and see what was done well and what could be improved for the future. Looking inward at insurer investment practices, background trend information was generated and a survey developed for insurers to share their thoughts. The research continued with conversations in private and public forums, where initial conclusions were expanded.

Description: Why Write Variable Products When You Can Put the Money Directly into the Stock Market?

Description: This article explores the possibility of using innovations from the financial markets to reduce some portion of the LTC risk and thus encourage the growth of the product.

Description: Chairperson’s column discusses recent events in the investment industry.

Description: In this session, presenters will share the impacts of transition to IFRS 17 on equity and various KPIs across insurance companies (Life & P&C), as well as share some observations of what the IFRS 17 landscape looks like across different global regions. The session will conclude with lessons learned and expectations for emerging practices under IFRS 17 globally.

Description: This report introduces actuaries and risk managers in the insurance and pension industries to current literature discussing growth rates in the past and future expectations.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that looks at ways of pricing options under the enhanced diffusion Model.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a new model for the loss given default (LGD), which takes the depth of default into consideration.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss how changes in interest rates affect the assets and liabilities of a life insurance company and what a company can do to prepare. This session examines historical trends in interest rates and how companies have reacted to both sudden and gradual changes.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers economics, investment-related assumptions for use in long-term models and how to determine those investment-related assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session.