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  • Credit Risk Study
    depreciation in the market value of property, that has a direct bearing on the loan-to-value ratio, which in turn ... to around 16%. Now, you might ask, "Why shouldI care about this? We've gone out there, we've cross-tabbedthese ...

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    • Authors: Warren Luckner, Arnold Shapiro, Kin O Tam, Walter C Barnes
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
  • Open Forum for Small-Company Issues
    been assigned to a new profit center, trying a direct mail method of distribution. One promising area ... Life and Health Compliance Association, which takes care of a lot of the regulato- ry initiatives, for example ...

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    • Authors: Robert H Dreyer, Kevin A Marti, John M O'Sullivan, John W H Taylor
    • Date: Oct 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Global Perspectives
  • Bells and Whistles or Time Bombs: The Costs of Long-Term Guarantees
    of death. I’m sorry to disappoint those with a primary interest in life insurance because I’m going to ... been finding in our research is that if you take care of the worst five or six scenarios, it does a good ...

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    • Authors: Max Rudolph, Zenaida Samaniego
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Investment strategy - Annuities; Finance & Investments
  • Benchmarks for Insurance Portfolio Managers
    don't want to ever invest in any CMOs. We don't care how well they might do over the long term. We just ... and on Telerate and what have you. Probably the primary motivation here was portfolio managers asking about ...

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    • Authors: Martin Klein, Stephen Reddy, Gregory J Roemelt
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Executive Compensation
    COMPENSATION 651 think it is happening more in the health care industry than any other. The utilities are still ... insurance benefits we don't want. But it is our primary objective to provide supplemental retirement income ...

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    • Authors: Roderick Duff, Kevin P McGlynn, Frederick Thompson, Mark C Ubelhart
    • Date: May 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Risk Management Tools
    attach at the right point, which requires some care, you remove the downside of serious claims while ... can't get any worse. This would actually be a direct vertical drop, but the charting software makes ...

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    • Authors: W Steven Prince, Charles L Gilbert, Kannoo Ravindran
    • Date: Jun 2001
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
  • NAIC Model Investment Act Update
    a lot of prepayment or extension risk. Is the primary risk associated with this particular fixed- income ... shows negative, that the hedging process would take care of the problem and thereby still conclude that cash-flow- ...

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    • Authors: Vincent Gallagher, Larry M Gorski, Joseph H Tan, Christopher T Anderson
    • Date: May 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Public Policy
  • An Alternative to Assumption Reinsurance
    reinsurance trust account, it is very important to take care of all the details. If the trust documentation ... which was licensed in the one state where the primary company was not, so that worked out all right.

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    • Authors: James W Dallas, Willis B Howard, Thomas E Skillman, Michael P Trier
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Reinsurance>Coinsurance
  • What If You Stretch Investment Yield and It Snaps?
    only the short end of the curve. They don't have direct control over the long end, so we're seeing this ... credit markets. Over time arbitrage has become the primary motivation for issuance, and synthetic structures ...

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    • Authors: Frank Cataldo, Timothy L Swenson, Kenneth Mungan
    • Date: May 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Measuring Interest Margins-Part 2-Measuring Investment Results
    identify individual segment cash flows. You don't care about the internal segment cash flows. Interest ... Market values of certain investments (for example, direct placement bonds and mort- gages) may not be available ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Gleeson, Roger W Smith, Thomas M Kyle, Peter S Mavrogenes
    • Date: Jun 1990
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments