Description: In this article the author notes that investment strategy development is fundamentally a communications exercise between the investment and actuarial functions. The article explores four questions with respect to investment strategy: 1 how to make money 2 how to avoid earnings fluctuations 3 how to avoid catastrophic loss and 4 how to choose a new investment idea.

Description: This article explains the 2009 changes to the Global Credit Default Swap contract and North American conventions. It is reprinted with permission from The Markit Magazine.

Description: This article is about a tool called the Life Styles Inventory used to increase your personal and professional effectiveness. It can be used to initiate positive changes in how you think and act.

Description: An article that offers a reinsurance professional's perspective on re-engineering which resulted in strengthened and improved service to their clients as well as net improvement to their bottom line.

Description: Describes the results of the 2015 Product Development section council election as well as providing background on the new committee members.

Description: September 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: Discusses the evolving role of technology within the actuarial profession and the current use of electronic bulletin boards on the internet.

Description: A basic principle of marketing suggests that using the preferred medium a consumer knows and trusts will have a direct impact on the way they make purchases and how one could—and should—sell to and interact with them.