Description: Panelists discuss portfolio restructuring, use of reinsurance to restructure liabilities and in other ways, hedging strategies, and product-mix strategies. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Panel discussion focused on the Effective Use of Capital. Topics included: 1. Definition of capital 2. Appropriate level of capital and surplus in a life insurance company 3. Alternatives for deploying capital 4. Returns a life company should demand on invested capital 5. How much a company should charge for lending its capital in reinsurance transactions

Description: In this article the author uses the backdrop of the Isner/Mahut 2010 Wimbeldon match that lasted an unlikely 183 games to discuss several diverse areas that provide opportunity for risk management.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. This session examines financial, economic and traditional actuarial methodological approaches used for solving investment-risk problems.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium gives an overview of risk management. Two example company programs are described. The use of value at risk as a measure is discussed.

Description: This paper discusses a model that is used for the loss process, ratemaking problem and risk classification.

Description: This is a sequel to author's earlier paper on Installment Premiums. This paper explores the parallel case of apportionable premiums, another situation in which a special adjustment payment at death causes an otherwise somewhat complex policy to be identical with a more simple and familiar one. As with installment premiums, this will result in terminal reserves for the complex policy being exactly equal to those for its corresponding familiar policy.

Description: This paper thoroughly describes risk premium calculation based on an insurance portfolio consisting of policies risks insured over a finite time interval.

Description: From the Editor: This issue of Long-Term Care News attempts to address how LTC insurers manage investment risk and morbidity misestimation risks.

Description: This dialogue discusses the history and purpose of section 811(a) and its historic role in the computation of life insurance company taxable income and, in particular, reserves.