Description: The author uses football to demonstrate the axiom of downside risk, and how it can be applied in business situations when considering whether to use a conservative or aggressive approach.

Description: There are many factors involved with managing the financial condition of an insurance company and the factors usually fall into on of three categories: earnings management, capital management and risk management. Transfer pricing involves assigning a price for the use of funds that are transferred within the company.

Description: Presents results of 2003-2012 cohorts of insurance company private placement bonds. Finds private bonds show a 15bp annual advantage relative to public bonds, due to lower loss severity.

Description: This article notes that life insurance companies have long used sophisticated techniques for appraising capital investment, and explores the question of whether these techniques can be applied to other industries.

Description: In this article the author discusses stable value wrap contracts, funds in defined contribution pension plans, which credit interest and guarantee principle. This article discusses current controversies about the classification of the wrap contract and about the relative value of its experience-rated and non experience-rated versions, and concludes that a wrap is not a derivative.

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

Description: Describes actuarial approaches used to quantify the benefit to employers of implementing financial wellness programs for their employees.

Description: This article describes the proposal selected for research involving the modeling of economic series. The proposal submitted by the research team of Kevin Ahlgrim of Bradley University, Stephen D'Arcy of the University of Illinios and Richard Gorvett of Zurich North America was selected.

Description: Feature article discussing how insurers have reflected volatility in asset return assumptions when determining capital requirements, but have largely disregarded the impact of mortality volatility on their liability assumptions when performing stochastic analysis.

Description: Feature article discussing the implications and uses of market consistent embedded value in developing investment strategy.