Description: This article explains why stochastic modeling is becoming more pervasive, and describes a specific stochastic application with metrics to measure results.

Description: Articles address why longevity risk is of interest to US life insurers but not necessarily a priority and what might happen that could change that perspective. It also presents attractive options for managing longevity risk. Provides real life scenarious of how a longevity swap works.

Description: Insurance companies are not immune to liquidity risks.

Description: Credit ratings have played an essential role in the financial system and have been used extensively by market participants. Despite their wide use in the financial services industry, they are actually insufficient for pricing and risk management of fixed income securities.

Description: The Life Risk Based Capital Working Group of the NAIC asked for a recommended capital standard from the American Academy of Actuaries for variable annuity contracts with guarantees. In response, the Life Capital Adequacy Subcommittee’s C-3 Work Group the Work Group, chaired by Bob Brown, formulated an approach, which has been dubbed RBC C-3 Phase II.

Description: ERM may exist in name only without a risk-aware culture. The article uses battle-tested approaches & behavioral insights to drive change and embed risk culture.

Description: Cyber threats and their costs are a continuously evolving, moving target and a source of uncertainty.

Description: Introduction to option pricing, with special attention to issues in applying these tools to price equity-linked insurance products. Clear, accessible explanation of key results of mathematical finance including risk-neutral valuation.

Description: Decomposes guaranteed minimum maturity benefit option into a basket of components, and values each component with both a Black-Scholes model and a regime-switching GARCH model. Performs sensitivity analysis on dynamic lapse assumption.

Description: This article discusses some of the most important considerations in implementing risk adjustment within a Medicaid Managed Care program. From Health Watch, January 2008, No. 57.