Description: Description of new regulatory risk disclosure for private fund advisers.

Description: Feature article discussing how insurers have reflected volatility in asset return assumptions when determining capital requirements, but have largely disregarded the impact of mortality volatility on their liability assumptions when performing stochastic analysis.

Description: This article notes that life insurance companies have long used sophisticated techniques for appraising capital investment, and explores the question of whether these techniques can be applied to other industries.

Description: Describes actuarial approaches used to quantify the benefit to employers of implementing financial wellness programs for their employees.

Description: Presents results of 2003-2012 cohorts of insurance company private placement bonds. Finds private bonds show a 15bp annual advantage relative to public bonds, due to lower loss severity.

Description: In this article the author discusses stable value wrap contracts, funds in defined contribution pension plans, which credit interest and guarantee principle. This article discusses current controversies about the classification of the wrap contract and about the relative value of its experience-rated and non experience-rated versions, and concludes that a wrap is not a derivative.