Description: [Title should have been 'Communication by Actuaries WITH Investment Professionals ....'] Actuaries working with investments must communicate not only with investment professionals, but also with senior managers and board members with non-financial backgrounds. Panelists show and critique examples of communicating such information using statistics and graphs. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 136PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Discussion of newer and more innovative investment structures and the modeling of these securities in cash-flowing testing and asset/liabilities management analysis.

Description: This presentation is from session number 3, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists address specific asset modeling issues of current interest, including purpose of model considerations, dynamic reinvestment strategies, and less than rigorous modeling of asset optionality.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists discuss the process of selecting outside investment managers.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed how asset liability management is synonymous with a dynamic financial analysis and quantitative risk management. Topics covered were systems implementations including asset risk exposure optimization given a company-specific set of liabilities and total risk exposure optimization, which includes stochastic analysis of alternative asset and liability strategies.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed the keys to an effective Asset Liability Management process and the conceptual tools that they're using, including value-at-risk, optimization techniques, and holistic ALM.

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 17 discusses market value measures and its uses in asset liability management.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session explores both conceptual and practical considerations involved with the formulation and implementation of investment strategy: decision-making framework and processes, measurement of risk and reward, constraints, modeling.

Description: 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session panelists discussed how cash-flow testing models can be used to provide significant Asset/Liability Management information, making the transition from cash-flow testing to ALM, definitions of ALM, the key assumptions in ALM, and evaluating results.

Description: 1994 SOA meeting, Orlando. This session is about the committee's dynamic solvency handbook and their progress to date. Topics discussed: 1. Should this report be a required opinion/report? 2. Should it be an internal confidential analysis? 3. What are the actuary's role and responsibilities?

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss cost accounting issues under FASB 97, including definition and treatment of fixed, variable, deferrable, nondeferrable, maintenance and overhead costs, and allocation and recoverability. Intercompany and other expense analyses, including coordination of accounting and actuarial expense statements, and communication to management and use in managing the business are discussed. The panelists also look at measuring and improving productivity. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.