Description: Full article listing of the 2006 Enterprise Risk Management symposium.

Description: Download the papers from the "Needs and Spending in Retirement: Unraveling the Mystery" monograph.

Description: This is a listing of the participating organizations and the sponsoring organizations for the Living To 100 and Beyond International Symposium in 2005.

Description: This paper reviews validation for the model of a life insurance company's liabilities with actual company data. Two methods are reviewed: static and dynamic validation. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: This article intends to provide some background on how and when the state variation issues came about, why these issues present a challenge to the valuation actuary, what seems to be the current practice in dealing with these challenges, and how these issues can be addressed more effectively and efficiently in the future. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: This paper uses a simple example to examine the relationship between the pricing objective of ROI and the corporate profit measure of ROE. Additionally, this paper examines the effect on ROI and ROE of growth in the amount of new business. From Product Development Section Monograph, M-AS99-3.

Description: Chapter 4 of the Price, Waterhouse study presents and extensive collection of numerical tables. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: This paper considers a defined contribution DC plan, a cash balance plan, and traditional defined benefit DB plan with equal expected value at the assumed retirement age. Using utility as a measure of risk and participant preferences, the designs are particularly well suited to minimize participant risk, particularly while employees are accumulating retirement assets. From Cash Balance Symposium Monograph, M-RS02-3.

Description: List of Tables. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: This paper will describe why self-insurance is less attractive with transparent-accounting rules, and the will examine two strategies an employer can execute to reduce the plan's and the plan participant's risks.