Description: The session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium describes current risk mitigation techniques and their impact upon valuation systems including hedging mechanisms, regulatory relief, GAAP measurement, product 'quarantine', realistic assumption changes, maximizing returns and minimizing litigation.

Description: This teaching session covers primarily hedging strategies, including mechanisms, assumptions, and simulation. Hedging used for guaranteed living benefits on variable annuities is frequently discussed. Session 7TS of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists discuss the role of an investment actuary. Focus is on the process the investment actuary uses in the job, and on working with the perspectives of the investment professionals and the product actuaries with whom the investment actuary works. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 5PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting focuses on the current low interest rate environment, which creates pressure on life companies to reach for incrementally higher yields via longer durations or higher credit risk or other means. The opportunities and risks of doing so are explored.

Description: A discussion of the theoretically correct approach to the valuation of cross-border insurance ventures