Description: Provides an update in the April - Sept 2015 contest organized by the section

Description: Asset modeling is becoming increasingly complex, detailed and important to insurance company financial reporting and risk management. This article describes the author's personal perspective on the current state of asset modeling in insurance companies and the future challenges facing actuaries who develop, maintain and use ALM models.

Description: Presents results of 2003-2012 cohorts of insurance company private placement bonds. Finds private bonds show a 15bp annual advantage relative to public bonds, due to lower loss severity.

Description: Correspondence report - 2016 Society of Actuaries Annual meeting

Description: Is Risk/Return a sound tool for decision-making? No. It is not consistent, not objective, distorts decision and degrades governance. Why? What shall we do then?

Description: Provides a lively overview and summary of key topics and speakers at 2013 Life & Annuity Symposium, held in Toronto in May. Provides a good feel for social events at the conference, including game transcriptions and pictures from Thomas C. Barham III Speed Chess Tournament.

Description: 2013 Symposium Presenter's Diary: Responses to the Global Financial Crises

Description: Update to section members on professional development tool EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus.

Description: This article discusses the demographic trends as the “baby boomer” generation begins to retire, including implications for retirement plans, Social Security, and other considerations. Reprinted from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, Number 98–20, June 26, 1998.

Description: This article notes that life insurance companies have long used sophisticated techniques for appraising capital investment, and explores the question of whether these techniques can be applied to other industries.