Description: This session 13TS of the Dallas Spring Meeting provides a basic background on derivatives and discusses how derivatives can be used in insurance and pension investment portfolios, how they are valued, and how they can impact the long-term financial situation of a portfolio.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 13TS

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting examines the use of derivatives to help optimize the inurance company portfolios and using pension theory in developing optimized portfolios in an insurance company environment. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No.4b.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting addresses asset prepayments including emerging prepayment experience in the mortgage-backed - CMO security arena, special modeling considerations when addressing prepayments and the NAIC's FLUX model and the scenario and assumption specifications of that model. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the organizational and practical implications of segregating the General Account including how to allocate existing assets by product line, organizational changes required, regulatory implications and accounting and systems consideratons. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3