Description: Download the papers from the Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph.

Description: This is the foreword to the Financial Reporting Section Monograph, 1999.

Description: This article presents some observations on inverted yield curves of U.S. Treasury securities and the correlation of volatility of Treasury security interest rates with their absolute level. The time covered by the study is December 1953 to December 1988. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: This monograph discusses Present Value Profits PVP with respect to purchase accounting. From Financial Reporting Section Monograph, AS99-1.

Description: This article looks at the areas that affect financial reporting by insurance companies. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: Actuarial appraisals are performed using discounted cash-flow models. Using local market insurance accounting standards, an appraisal model typically assumes annual after-tax distributable earnings that are repatriated to the investor. The various lines of business are modeled and validated individually and presented in separate sections of the appraisal report before being aggregated into a total company model. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1.

Description: The concept of crosshedging gives us the key to the actuarial understanding of most new tools arising in the area of alternative risk transfer mechanisms. Securitization of insurance, which is the theme of this symposium can, as I see it, almost always be seen as an exercise in crosshedging. The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.

Description: Chapter 3 of the Price, Waterhouse study contains an extensive collection of descriptive tables. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 5 of the Price, Waterhouse study presents an extensive collection of tables attempting to capture the size, risk, age, and objectives of the examined programs in an understandable, comparative format. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Foreword to monograph presenting results of a Price, Waterhouse study on behalf of SOA. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.