Description: What The Markets Should Reflect From The Victory In Iraq - A Candian’s Perspective

Description: This article questions the validity of long term market return expectations using macroeconomics and analytical arguments.

Description: What is going on with the exchange rate, anyway? In 2002, $1 U.S. bought $C 1.60, and now in May 2005 you only get $C 1.25—that’s 20 percent less! Where’s it going next? One way to answer that question is with a time series model.

Description: Full version of Risk and Rewards Newsletter, August 2007, Issue No. 50.

Description: Short for Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, this new international credential encompasses the most comprehensive and rigorous validation available for enterprise risk management.

Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the effects of the recent financial crisis and other topics.

Description: “Many commentators have suggested that firms need to do stress tests to examine their vulnerability to adverse situations that are not within the data set used to parameterize their risk models. We suggest the adop¬tion of a terminology to describe stress tests and also a meth¬odology that can be adopted by any risk model user to test and communicate a test of the stability of model results.”

Description: This is a book review of Uncertain Times: A Chief Investment Officer's Journey, by Alton R. Cogert.

Description: Feature article discussing how insurers have reflected volatility in asset return assumptions when determining capital requirements, but have largely disregarded the impact of mortality volatility on their liability assumptions when performing stochastic analysis.

Description: February 2010 issue of the Investment Section newsletter, Risks and Rewards.