Description: This case study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.

Description: This is an interview with Prakash Shimpi who talks about enterprise risk management, research and development. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: Discusses innovative ways in which insurance companies can obtain capital for investment and new business. Includes purchasing collateralized mortgage obligations [CMOs]. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: In this article the author notes that investment strategy development is fundamentally a communications exercise between the investment and actuarial functions. The article explores four questions with respect to investment strategy: 1 how to make money 2 how to avoid earnings fluctuations 3 how to avoid catastrophic loss and 4 how to choose a new investment idea.

Description: This article explains the 2009 changes to the Global Credit Default Swap contract and North American conventions. It is reprinted with permission from The Markit Magazine.

Description: This article presents some thoughts on the role of the investment actuary in the United Kingdom. It is a topical subject, prompted by a feeling that the U.K. profession is not fulfilling its potential in this specialty. The article has three main themes: a Some historical perspective b What the professional actuary uniquely has to offer the investment marketplace and c What the consulting actuaries in the U.K. currently offer their clients.

Description: Article, Swaps and the Swaps Yield Curve by Joseph G. Haubrich, reprinted with permission. From Risks and Rewards, February 2004, Issue No. 44. This article was originally published in Economic Commentary in December 2001. Reprinted with permission.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses executive compensation including methods which relate compensation to the job that has been performed and incentive compensation. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10 , No. 2

Description: This case study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.