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

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: Letter From The President column for the October/November 2012 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing the importance of actuaries staying relevant in today’s and the future’s work force.

Description: This article discusses the new Investment Section. The initial targeted areas are expected to be: Modeling, Corporate Finance, Capital Management and Investment Instruments.

Description: This is an article that discusses the retreat of savings banks from mutuality. As we ponder the future of mutual life insurance, we should be aware of the change sweeping through the mutual savings bank industry.

Description: Irish actuary and professor explains his hypothesis that actuaries, as practitioners, are reluctant to adopt the theories of financial economists unless the models on which the theories are based fit the actual data the actuaries have.

Description: This article discusses the trend toward outsourcing of insurance assets to third party money managers which has grown steadily as insurers face increasing market challenges. Insurers are finding that a strategic approach to outsourcing investments is critical to enhancing value within both liability reserves and surplus portfolios.

Description: Banks and insurance companies today are addressing many similar issues. Included are product, business unit, and corporate profitability capital requirements and allocation issues reserve adequacy and data development and practical utilizations. Actuaries are uniquely qualified to address these issues.

Description: The article discusses indexed-linked securities in the United Kingdom and the relationship between the prices of index-linked securities and interest rates, common stock prices and a combination of these.