Description: Analyze financial risk and explore the foundation for pricing, valuation and other functions served by actuaries in the modeling profession during this webcast. Expect a focus on the importance of understanding and preventing bias. Observe the different types of bias, how it can enter into models, how to identify it in models and best avoidance practices. Join our presenter who is pursuing a Masters in Economic Analytics at Clemson University as he incorporates his recent economic research into the webcast material.

Description: The editor introduces the articles in this issue. Articles that include topics on systemic risk, economic capital, variable annuties, etc.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss operational risk for companies in the asset management business and the operational considerations for mitigating that risk. A specific case of operational failure is explored.

Description: Listing and description of key articles in August 2011 issue of Risk Management. Topics include Predictive Modeling, Risk management and Solvency II.

Description: The editors introduce the articles in this issue of the newsletter.

Description: The editor of the Risk Management newsletter summarizes the articles in this issue which cover Enterprise Risk Management, Systemic Risk and Variable Annuities.

Description: In this article, the editors introduce the articles in this issue.

Description: The editor introduces the articles in this issue of the Risk Management newsletter, June, 2010. Topics include an IAA project on risk assessment, systemic risk and other risk management subjects.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers economics, investment-related assumptions for use in long-term models and how to determine those investment-related assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session.

Description: This presentation, session number 43PD at the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX, discusses the use of mortgage-backed securities by life insurance companies. “Insurance companies in the United States have, for many years, invested in mortgage-backed securities MBS. The suitability of MBS for insurance company portfolios has been called into question by recent changes in interest rate volatility and increased capital requirements.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.