Description: This report introduces actuaries and risk managers in the insurance and pension industries to current literature discussing growth rates in the past and future expectations.

Description: Risk Management and Actuaries—SOA Risk Management Task Force Update

Description: An overview of the recent Advanced Risk Management Seminar New York, December 2002.

Description: Chairperson’s Corner: SOA Plans New Risk Management Section

Description: In this article chairperson Anthony Dardis takes a look back at the achievements of the Investment Section Council halfway through his tenure as chair.

Description: In reference to the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Steven Scoles describes our ability to detect patterns in certain aspects of life and how these patterns may in fact be simple randomness.

Description: As we meet with pension plan sponsors and consultants across Canada we find that the subject of liability-driven investing LDI comes up repeatedly even when we do not initiate the discussion. We also find that LDI seems to mean something different to each person we meet. Is LDI just a new name for asset/liability management ALM? Or is LDI just about hedging interest rate risks with fancy securities? In this article we describe a framework for understanding what LDI is, how it relates to ALM, and how it can be used to solve real-life problems for Canadian pension funds.

Description: Column from the chairperson of the Investment Section.

Description: Read the April 2020 issue of Risks & Rewards published by the Investment Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Feature article discussing the current state of interest rates globally.