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

Description: Update to section members on professional development tool EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus.

Description: 2013 Symposium Presenter's Diary: Responses to the Global Financial Crises

Description: Provides a lively overview and summary of key topics and speakers at 2013 Life & Annuity Symposium, held in Toronto in May. Provides a good feel for social events at the conference, including game transcriptions and pictures from Thomas C. Barham III Speed Chess Tournament.

Description: Describes the construction of the CBOE's VIX index. Shows mathematically how the variance of investment returns is reflected in the price of the index. Provides a rational explanation of technical factors that lead the index to perform inconsistently with market sentiment. Highly relevant for any hedger seeking to use the VIX index.

Description: Provides an original formulation for the marginal contribution to risk for each payment in a dollar cost averaging strategy. Useful and simple insight.

Description: Your correspondents couldn’t have asked for better weather in Orlando during the 2014 SOA Annual Meeting held at the Rosen Shingle Creek facility from Oct. 27-29. Just imagine them—notepads in hand,with their faithful portable typewriters and SLR cameras slung over their shoulders, tip-toeing around the alligators basking in the warm Florida sunshine in their quest to bring you the latest news. Shades of Hemingway! Well, maybe it wasn’t quite like that—given the ubiquity of modern wireless devices and the advent of the responsible drinking ethic. But hopefully you will find their brief reports about various Investment Section sponsored sessions and events diverting nonetheless.

Description: This article explores whether geopolitical risk still matters in an investment portfolio and how this scenario can change as time progresses. It discusses the impact of global central bank monetary policy on investment performance and risk.

Description: Correspondence report - 2016 Society of Actuaries Annual meeting

Description: Is Risk/Return a sound tool for decision-making? No. It is not consistent, not objective, distorts decision and degrades governance. Why? What shall we do then?