Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting addresses how to objectively measure a portfolio manager's investment performance, evaluate relevancy of market indices as performance benchmarks for insurance liabilities, and successfully benchmark performance against insurance liabilities.

Description: This article speculates on the presence and magnitude of the benefits attributable to regular rebalancing of one's investment portfolio. It surveys the extant literature, discusses certain implications, and presents conclusions.

Description: In session 8PD of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discussion focuses on a range of problems encountered in managing a book of derivatives supporting an existing equity-indexed portfolio. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.