Description: Investment Fallacies: The "Dollar Bill" Fallacy

Description: Update on accounting and capital/RBC issues subsequent to tax reform.

Description: Comments on how US insurers have compensated for low interest rates by investing in a range of less liquid and lower quality assets.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Fed Model

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

Description: This presentation, session number 91F, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The panelists discuss questions raised by the intent of several U.S. and Canadian insurers to reorganize, within permitted regulations, to access capital and further their companies’ growth. The discussion looks at considerations for domestic and multinational insurers based in other countries, including regulatory matters. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: A discussion of life insurance securitizations and how they can be structured to provide surplus relief associated with onerous reserve requirements.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Misconceptions of Retirement Risks

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

Description: This presentation, session number 79PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists examine the history, growth, and the purpose of mutual life insurance companies, and the current interest in demutualization and the formation of the mutual holding company. They look at the current changing conditions—legal, economic, and market, and the search for alternative ways to access the capital markets. Topics include company management, advisors, regulators and their concerns, and recent activities among supporters and opponents of mutual company structure. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.