Description: Investment Fallacies: The "Dollar Bill" Fallacy

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Fed Model

Description: Invest Fallacies: Active management overall performs different than passive management

Description: Description of new regulatory risk disclosure for private fund advisers.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Misconceptions of Retirement Risks

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fable of the Storyteller and the Market

Description: E-book contains 16 topical essays that express the opinions and thoughts of a number of authors on the subject of Investment Fallacies.

Description: Investment Fallacies: Extended periods of robust macroeconomic growth are healthy for investing.

Description: Much of the push for ERM has come from regulators and rating agencies, but it is being applied in internal company decision-making as well. This paper reviews the progress made and the needs still outstanding in two key areas of application: optimal capital level for an insurer and risk-adjusted profitability of business units. The basic conclusion is that progress has been made in these areas, but more is needed. Building models is not emphasized—it will be assumed that a state-of-the art model is available. The emphasis is on using such models in decision-making.

Description: This study note focuses on actuarial applications and loss distributions for insurance products.