Description: 41st Annual Actuarial Research Conference (ARC)Announcement

Description: Announcement about CKER Travel Grants for the 41st ARC.

Description: An article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter from December 2004 that talks about th Annual and Spring Meeting sessions held by the E&R section.

Description: Description of the scheduled sessions that are either sponsored or co-sponsored by the E&R Section.

Description: The Actuarial Foundation's (TAF) AERF Committee of and the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2007 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science. Grants will be funded through TAF and the SOA.

Description: This article list descriptions of the sessions that are either sponsored or co–sponsored by the Education and Research Section.

Description: The values of life insurance and annuity liabilities move in opposite directions in response to a change in the underlying mortality. Natural hedging utilizes this to stabilize aggregate liability cash flows. Our study shows empirical evidence that insurers who utilize natural hedging also charge lower premiums than otherwise similar insurers. This indicates that insurers who are able to utilize natural hedging have a competitive advantage. In addition, we show how a mortality swap might be used to provide the benefits of natural hedging to a firm that writes only one of the lines of business.

Description: Complete collection of the 2007 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium.

Description: Full article listing of the 2006 Re–Envisioning Retirement in the 21st Century Symposium.

Description: Download the papers from the "Defining the Characteristics of the 21st Century Retirement System" monograph.