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  • Measuring Interest Margins-Part 3-Measuring Required Interest
    contribute to a defined contribution plan often direct a portion of their contributions into a GIC. Depending ... rate call option on the plan contributions. One primary difference between a GIC and an SPDA is the ability ...

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    • Authors: Frederic W Corwin, Peter B Deakins, C Elam, W Palmer
    • Date: Apr 1990
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Finance & Investments; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Acquisitions And Mergers
    The one easy solution to this is to look at the direct mar- keting companies. That choice is easy; the ... owned; there are only a very few free-standing direct marketing companies. On the selling side of the ...

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    • Authors: John C Lathrop, Ralph Milo, Bruce Ogg, Stanley B Tulin
    • Date: Apr 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Are We Prepared for Interest Rates to Rise Again?
    security (MBS) holdings and the offsetting decrease in direct commercial and residential mortgage loans. I would ... arise from a discontinuous behavioral event. My primary concern is that a discontinuity in the fundamentals ...

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    • Authors: Randall Boushek, Shane A Chalke, Robert P Clancy, Prakash A Shimpi
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Economics; Finance & Investments
  • Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions Specialty Reference Book: Meet the Authors
    originally came up with in our meetings. That's a direct result of working with these many different professionals ... for Chapter 6 is Dale Yamamoto. Dale is a health-care actuarial practice leader for Hewett Associates ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Corcoran, R Thomas Herget, Kenneth LaSorella, Dale Yamamoto, Michael Gabon, Alan M Hines, Laird D Zacheis, Jim Toole, Hugh McCormick, Owen Ryan, Erika Schmidt, John Butler
    • Date: Oct 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Appropriate Standards for Profit Margins
    surplusto an individualpolicy, enoughsurplusto take care of the fact that you'll probably be paying out more ... businessand assume that the tail is just going to take care of itself. So when you're measuring surplus,you ...

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    • Authors: Stephen P D'Arcy, Charles McClenahan, Oakley E Van Slyke
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Public Policy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets
    because Munich Re is a reinsurer, and yet it bought a direct stake in Suramericana, which is the largest insurance ... remember the Aergo Group in Europe, which is a direct writer, too. MR. SALAZAR: But in Latin America ...

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    • Authors: Elisa M Wever, William R Horbatt, Camilo Salazar, David A. Chalfin, Samuel R Coleman, Gary P Timin, Richard de Haan
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Global Perspectives>Multinational companies
  • Corporate Governance of Investments: Avoiding the Next Class-Action Suit?
    area are all involved. Why do we care about corporate governance? We care because we want to make sure ... focuses on general account allocations. This is the primary law that monitors fairness and equity with regard ...

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    • Authors: William P Chirolas, Susan M Ende, Paul J L'Italien, Ronald Jay Rubnich, Michael Roch
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • New Investments and New Investment Strategies
    certain liabilities. Other forms of hedging are more direct. Standby liquidity facilities are specifi- cally ... measures of asset/liabillty appropriateness and direct feedback on the required surplus effects. The ...

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    • Authors: Peter F Chapman, Peter Hepokoski, Kurt J Laning, Peter Noris, M James Barry
    • Date: Apr 1987
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Frequently Overlooked Topics in Solvency Testing
    communities are responsible. It establishes a primary earthquake insurance program and a federal reinsurance ... is, does it have control over its sales force? A direct writer will have control over its sales force, ...

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    • Authors: Joanne Balling, Laurie Blank, Steven Dreyer, Diana Monteith
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Global Investing
    itself. We no doubt have many actuaries whose primary interest is with pension funds while others focus ... these portfolios? First of all, Portfolio 1, is the direct investment in long Canada bonds. Our second portfolio ...

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    • Authors: James A Creighton, Anthony Dardis, Blake R Grossman
    • Date: Oct 1990
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Global Perspectives