Description: Highlights of Society of Actuaries research efforts in the financial services practice area.

Description: This article delves into the challenges and opportunities of the Asian insurance market, focusing on insurance investment management.

Description: Discussion of solvency problems and the actuary's role in addressing them in the life insurance industry.

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

Description: Social security systems around the world have suffered from inadequate funding, leading to current or potential deficits and ultimate insolvency. This article discusses that this problem is a direct actuarial consequence of the inadequate funding that created the problem in the first place. It is simply an open group valuation problem.

Description: Article Ode To A Part Three Student by Adler in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4. Poetry.

Description: Insurance companies use derivatives to manage and mitigate risks that are inherent in their investment or liability portfolios, including traditional asset/liability matching, dynamic hedging and static hedging. The authors explore how Solvency II will influence life insurers’ hedging strategies.

Description: background history of the insurance industry and the role of actuaries within it, followed by the current environment and anticipated future environment.

Description: Article AERF in The Actuary, May 1979, Volume 13, Number 5

Description: The author explores and argues against the “evolution of thinking” and the position that actuarial thinking is a blend of all three modes of thinking, as discussed by Dave Ingram in the February/March 2012 issue of The Actuary.