Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting examines the use of derivatives to help optimize the inurance company portfolios and using pension theory in developing optimized portfolios in an insurance company environment. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No.4b.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews issues relating to various methods of evaluating portfolio managers. Specifically addressed will be developing benchmarks based on liability requirements, linking the benchmarks to business needs, measuring performance against the benchmark and an SPDA benchmark. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.