Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panel discusses: 1 Financial modeling tools used by the actuarial profession, 2 Pricing techniques used by Wall Street financial analysts, 3 Advantages and disadvantages of each approach 4 Market implications of each approach, and 5 Potential for harmonization of the two techniques.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of how stochastic modeling techniques can be used to efficiently and effectively consider a wide variety of scenarios and outcomes and how these tools can be used to optimize portfolio performance?

Description: The session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews the various subjects covered in Course 485, Advanced Portfolio Management, the reading materials, and highlight a few topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, September 2000, Issue No. 35.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed recent developments in the equity-linked note market. Topics included: 1. New structures that allow active management. 2. Trade-offs affecting participation rates. 3. Accounting issues. 4. Tax issues. 5. Risk-based capital issues.

Description: Panel members discuss the ways that their organizations make communication work among actuaries and investment staff. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 10OF of the Totonto Spring Meeting.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 34.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 94PD, from the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists discuss behavioral finance, which incorporates psychological phenomena into models of financial markets. Noting that behavioral finance was originally deemed controversial, the panelists look at progress made to integrate behavioral finance into models of efficient markets. The presentation includes a case study on a product in Canada commonly known as guaranteed investment fund [GIF], a segregated fund product, with risks similar to GMDB variable annuities. Behavioral finance is also discussed from the perspective of complex adaptive systems, including nonactuarial applications of these systems, some existing actuarial applications, and some potential actuarial applications. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: These are Charts 5-8 from a presentation entitled 'Stochastic Immunization'. From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000

Description: Panelists discuss managing RBC through product management and through asset allocation. RBC is discussed from the U.S. and Canadian perspectives. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.