Description: This article discusses the pending book entitled 'Dynamic Risk Modeling Handbook.' The proposed scope and outline of the book is reviewed. This is a revision of the 'DFA Handbook' which was published in 1995.

Description: The study measures incidence rates, loss severities and economic loss rates associated with credit risk events for privately placed debt during the years 1986-2002.

Description: Feature article discussing the creation and effects of orphaned VEBAs, Voluntary Employee Benefit Associations.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers insurance company investment issues including measurement of investment performance and models for measuring perfomance.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This teaching session covers course F-585 in the exam materials, which is intended to provide background for the actuary who aspires to become the chief financial officer of a financial institution. It addresses raising capital and financial management.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses financial, strategic, and regulatory issues that arise from the combination of life insurance businesses through merger, acquisition, or reinsurance, with a special focus on the needs of mutual companies.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed recent developments in the equity-linked note market. Topics included: 1. New structures that allow active management. 2. Trade-offs affecting participation rates. 3. Accounting issues. 4. Tax issues. 5. Risk-based capital issues.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session panelists discussed new investment options including an overview of traditional assets, an asset-allocation framework, specific markets' risk characteristics and some implications for risk-based capital for asset management. The discussion included derivatives, fixed income alternatives, and equity alternatives.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session discussed the work of an industry group that is in the process of developing total return benchmarks and universes for the measurement of insurance company investment performance.

Description: This paper reviews the main methodological questions underlying the theoretical pricing of catastrophe insurance futures. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI978-1.