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  • What Are Derivatives? How to Make Money with Them and Why Governments Care
    What Are Derivatives? How to Make Money with Them and Why Governments Care 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. ... How to Make Money with Them and Why Governments Care 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this ...

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    • Authors: R Stephen Radcliffe, Charles R Taylor
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Use of Derivatives by the Insurance Industry
    studies, suggested that derivatives activity was the primary domain of life/health insurers and not P & C companies ... (OTC) market. The life/health insurers are the primary participants in this market, although property ...

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    • Authors: Larry M Gorski, Warren Luckner, David J Cummins, Lucien Burnett, Richard D Phillips, Thomas A McAvity
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Monitoring, Managing, and Controlling Derivative Instruments
    and permutations thereof. This category is the primary focus of our comments today. Unlike the other types ... hedges. Asset hedges are those where there's a direct linkage between one or more derivative instruments ...

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    • Authors: Randall Boushek, David A Hall, Douglas A George
    • Date: May 1995
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Foreign Currency Swaps
    Chart 8 shows the growth in currency swap-driven primary debt issuance since 1981. In the last three years ... of the most important uses are in facilitating primary capital markets issuance, assisting in liability ...

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    • Authors: Randall Boushek, Patti Owens, Joseph C Lau, Michael B Murdoch
    • Date: Apr 1990
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Weird Science: Dissection of Derivatives
    that represents people using derivatives to take care of that problem. Twenty-four percent use derivatives ... there is some transfer back and forth. But for a direct writer's purposes, it's a one-way market. There's ...

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    • Authors: Larry M Gorski, Stephen Reddy, Charlene Marie Barnes, Christopher T Anderson
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Introduction to Credit Derivatives
    like that. One thing to keep in mind is that no direct loss for a protection buyer of a credit derivative ... rating agencies and other institutions. Banks don't care. Banks don't buy 20-year corporate bonds. They're ...

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    • Authors: Michael J Hambro, Gregory Henke, Craig Fowler, Kevin Reimer
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Public Policy
  • Options And Futures - A Teaching Session
    future contract, and which, therefore, is the primary moving force on the pricing of the contract. ... you would be able to take the gains or losses as direct tax offsets against your interest expense. However ...

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    • Authors: David P Jacob, Arthur L Rebell, Richard L Sega, Alan W Sibigtroth, James A Tilley
    • Date: Apr 1984
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Asset-Backed Securities
    little more personality than I have. But his primary role, how he spends his entire life, is designing ... and accounting advice. D. L. is going to be our primary teacher. When we sat down and decided how much ...

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    • Authors: Francis Sabatini, D L Auxier
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Derivatives in an Insurance Context
    instruments have been designed as alternatives to direct equity holdings, given the relatively high risk- ... analyze the perfor- mance relative to bonds and direct equity holding. Because the returns for these structures ...

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    • Authors: John Mulholland, Bryan Boudreau, Joseph Koltisko
    • Date: Apr 1995
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
  • Fixed Income Derivatives - Uses and Implications
    let's go to a different structure, one that takes care of some of the problems with the CMO tranche: the ... of profits, if not outright loss. How do we take care of that? Well, one thing we can do is buy a floor ...

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    • Authors: Stephen Reddy, John Mulholland, Timothy L Patria
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives