Description: The article discusses the Double for Five Initiative where the Investment Section is doubling the value of membership for the next five years.

Description: This article is a call for work that has been done in stochastic modeling and papers in the area of of stochastic modeling of investment returns in respect of the maturity and mortality guarantees offered on segregated fund and variable annuity products. These will be used in the symposium on stochastic modeling in September 1999 sponsored by the CIA, SOA and Actuarial Foundation.

Description: This article provides a summary of the content of the sessions at the recent The 2001 Bowles Symposium at Georgia State University. As the author notes, “The Coming Revolution in Insurance Accounting symposium” focused on the development and practical considerations of a new international accounting standard, generally referred to as fair value accounting.

Description: This article is an overview of the presentations made at the Advanced Risk Management Seminar. Some topics were 1 the importance of enterprise risk management 2 how policyholder behavior affects the risks of GMBD riders and 3 credit risk.

Description: In this Chairman’s corner column, Tom Anichini suggests several sources for finding investment related continuing education content. In addition to archived SOA presentations and recordings, other potential sources include pertinent academic and practitioner periodicals, blogs, podcasts, conference and seminar websites, and networks of academic publications and working papers.

Description: Provides a lively overview and summary of key topics and speakers at 2013 Life & Annuity Symposium, held in Toronto in May. Provides a good feel for social events at the conference, including game transcriptions and pictures from Thomas C. Barham III Speed Chess Tournament.

Description: The August 2013 issue of Risks & Rewards newsletter—a member benefit for the Investment Section of the Society of Actuaries.