Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn about the new capital allocation, the financial products company 'FPC' model recently developed by S&P -including S&P's view of interest rate risk and credit risk in the FPC model, challenges of implementing the model for a life insurance company, and how the FPC model compares to economic capital methodology.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, August 1999, Issue No. 33.

Description: This session 101PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting presents ideas on what causes liquidity concerns and discusses how to model and manage liquidity risk.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 101PD

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed product design of Equity Indexed products, interest crediting strategies, investment risks, hedging issues, and internal controls and risk management for companies getting started in the derivatives market.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers credit derivatives and how they have evolved, credit-default swaps CDSs, the advantages and disadvantages of credit derivatives and the regulatory overview. From the Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This article is a call for work that has been done in stochastic modeling and papers in the area of of stochastic modeling of investment returns in respect of the maturity and mortality guarantees offered on segregated fund and variable annuity products. These will be used in the symposium on stochastic modeling in September 1999 sponsored by the CIA, SOA and Actuarial Foundation.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panelists provided a brief description of the guaranteed benefits offered on Variable Annuities in both the U.S. and Canada, followed by an in-depth comparison of current issues, including risk assessment, reserving, and cash-flow testing.