Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the referenced paper.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that focuses on the mathematical underpinnings associated with the process of discounting future cash flows.

Description: In this article, the section chairperson talks about some challenges that are presenting the actuarial profession, and Risk Management professionals and how to turn them into new opportunities for business.

Description: This article discusses the impact of increasing activity with respect to Solvency II in the United States.

Description: The author summarizes certain presentations at the ERM II Systemic Risk Workshop. The key objective of the workshop was to develop recommendations that could serve as input to regulators, legislators and other policy makers in designing and implementing systemic risk regulation that can prevent future financial crises.

Description: Various ingredients contributed to the current financial crisis, and we can learn many lessons from the crisis. Yet rather than myopically focus on the particular minutiae of the current circumstances, we ought to pay special attention to those central issues that underpin the current crisis, past crises and future crises. Focus is on risk adjusting reported profits.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program issued a call for essays to examine the extent climate change factors are or will contribute to excessive heat-related morbidity or mortality over the short or long term, including probable scenarios and projections of future morbidity and mortality costs, risks and uncertainties.

Description: Seeking researchers to analyze long-term risk trends via survey data and develop engaging report formats for broad audiences.

Description: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been our chosen metric for growth since the Great Depression, but expectations are for lower GDP growth going forward than we are accustomed to. Its two components, population and productivity, face headwinds—population from a declining birth rate and longevity, and productivity from increased climate events, energy costs, global conflict and raw materials shortages.

Description: The Society of Actuaries announces the release of a new report that will provide a resource for the insurance industry to learn about image recognition technology. Authored by Kailan Shang, the report explores the current status of image recognition technology, models for image recognition, and various possible applications of image recognition to insurance.