Description: This article deals with enterprise risk management and how the techniques contained within the discipline can help prevent unforeseen large mistakes in strategy, product design, and product management

Description: This article provides an overview of the financial results of managed care plans over time using a collection of the NAIC financial statements.

Description: A discussion on the validity of real returns.

Description: Editorial for the October/November 2012 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing risk and uncertainty as two different concerns.

Description: This article highlights features of the SOA's Regulatory Web Resource. The intent is to encourage greater use of the Resource among section members.

Description: An exploration of risk management challenges in the Middle East, including historical overcapitalization, inadequate data and governance issues.

Description: Most reasonable risk mitigation strategies provide benefit in some circumstances, but come at a cost that adversely affects results in other scenarios. A research paper by the authors considers the view of multiple stakeholders to answer this question, resulting in a process they call Trifurcation.

Description: The article has formulas for calculating the geometric return of a portfolio using the arithmetic return and the variance

Description: This article announces the awarding of fellowship credits to Gary Parker for the article he wrote, entitled “Stochastic Analysis of the Interaction Between Investment and Insurance Risks,” and provides a brief synopsis of the paper.

Description: A framework to measure and evaluate the risk-adjusted investment performance given the characteristics of the insurance liability.