Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses how investment policies and strategies for pension funds are often developed independently of liability considerations. This session looks at the probable mismatch of asset and liability cash flows, the extent of problem, the actuarial concern with certification of assets and structuring the fund to recognize the relationship between assets and liabilities.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 68OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists, investment professionals and an actuary, discuss strategies that life insurance companies use for their capital account [surplus] assets. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about techniques companies are using to maintain compatibility between investment practices and pricing assumptions for interest-sensitive products: Segregated assets, Use of options/futures, Asset/liability matching, Market value adjustments.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel discusses a prevailing economic scenario, financing economic growth, investment strategies, and risk management.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of purposes and approaches for creating interest-rate scenarios.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about equity strategies of life insurance company general accounts. Topics included: 1. Various kinds of equity investments,what their features are, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. 2. What is the most efficient way, given the risk profile that most life companies have, to invest in equities? 3. Can you live with the capital standards that nervous regulators require? 4. Can you live with boards of directors who believe that we don't sell that many products with long liability tails, so we don't need equities?

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting Discusses evaluating yield needs and whether the expected net return will outweigh the RBC/rating agency penalty of added surplus requirement, the effect of factoring in volatility, the utility of using assets with high RBC requirements, and the amount limits on various assets.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session explores both conceptual and practical considerations involved with the formulation and implementation of investment strategy: decision-making framework and processes, measurement of risk and reward, constraints, modeling.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss determining an optimal investment strategy in the current economic environment, taking into account prospects for the future, and how investment decisions are affected by product features. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.