Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this presentation on translating bond default experience studies into a pricing deduction, the panelists focus on: 1. An approach to anticipating defaults of publicly rated companies. 2. Use of bond default experience studies in a specific company environment. 3. A Wall street approach.

Description: This is the abstract of the paper 'Pricing of Credit Derivatives'. This talk will give an overview of current pricing techniques. We first show how to build a credit curve. A credit curve gives the instantaneous default probability of a party at any time in the future. It is as important to credit derivative pricing as the yield curve is to fixed income derivative pricing.

Description: This presentation, session number 87PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Panelists discuss the value of convertible bonds as an asset class for insurance companies. The topics include an overview of the market, different types of convertible bonds, and historical performance. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.