Description: This article highlights the Annual Meeting Session 39 on the Equity Risk Premium (ERP), mentions related sources. Further, it asks whether in the future we will no longer regard the ERP as a single monolithic entity but as a mosaic of premia, and also whether individual investors presently are too optimistic.

Description: Risk and Rewards February 2014 Issue 63 Information Discovery and Knowledge Management: How Ebsco Can Help You Build Your Own Information Pyramid

Description: Provides an update in the April - Sept 2015 contest organized by the section

Description: Asset modeling is becoming increasingly complex, detailed and important to insurance company financial reporting and risk management. This article describes the author's personal perspective on the current state of asset modeling in insurance companies and the future challenges facing actuaries who develop, maintain and use ALM models.

Description: Presents results of 2003-2012 cohorts of insurance company private placement bonds. Finds private bonds show a 15bp annual advantage relative to public bonds, due to lower loss severity.

Description: August 2017 Crossword Puzzle.

Description: Describes investment strategy targets used in the investment competition under way for investment section members in 2017.

Description: Statistics were invented to describe heterogeneity and are now applied to tackle alea. It may not be appropriate. Let's clarify their field of relevance.

Description: Uses Blackrock's macroeconomic and style factors in asset allocation examples for an insurance portfolio and a pension portfolio.