Description: This Chairperson's Corner article discusses the SOA becoming the pre-eminent risk management profession. The Chairman's message is that actuaries have the inside track on risk management positions in the insurance industry and have a basis for competing for similar positions in the broader financial services industry.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss approaches currently used to measure credit risk exposure within the banking and insurance industries and contrast those approaches with traditional actuarial projection techniques.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 The panelists discuss the benefits of hedging variable annuity guarantees, the challenges they face and how they keep score.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses using equities to support long term liabilities covering the following topics: rates, pricing implications, derivatives, GAAP and risk-based capital RBC implications. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues related to the more direct involvement of actuaries on the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents their approach to an integrated risk management framework that assesses the level of risk in the organization and where it lies on the balance sheet.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion is an introduction to derivative products. Topics included: 1. Definition and basic description of instruments. 2. General pricing concepts. 3. Applications for life insurance company portfolios.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. In this teaching session, various forms of asset-backed securities, e.g., credit cards, auto, home equity, commercial real estate, mobile homes, etc., are examined. Also discussed is basic structures and the risks and opportunities and critical parameters involved.

Description: In session 60D of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the pros and cons of asset segmentation, as well recent trends. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This article discusses the impact of rising interest rates on annuity writers and life insurers and the risk management challenges it presents. Falling interest rates were addressed as well.