Description: In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the practical application of immunization theory to North American Funds. There is a lack of literature on this subject and this article is written to give a clear and concise description of the theory, and of its role in the framing of investment policy.

Description: Article Society Seminars by Adams in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: The article explores the use of economic capital modeling to deliver value to clients by improving the financial security of many individual lives around the world in a cost-effective way.

Description: Discusses the problem with options that insurers have been dealing with for some years, not the options of various sorts that recently have been coming into use as portfolio-management tools. Recommends better asset/liability matching and other courses of action.

Description: A discussion of funding arrangements that can reduce the costs of providing medical coverage through lower reserves or state tax savings, instead of through cutting benefits.

Description: Highlights using core skills in value added analysis and discusses the value of this analysis to insurers and to other businesses.