Description: This article discusses the new profession of financial engineering and the fit of actuaries in this profession.

Description: This article gives an overview and explanation of behavioral finance.

Description: Column on the latest Investment Section activities.

Description: The SEC recently approved a financial disclosure rule mandating that a company must release material and market-moving information to all investors simultaneously. This article looks at the new rule designed to make financial disclosure fairer for all investors and how it may pose problems for larger insurers, while it may level the playing field for smaller insurers.

Description: investing in private equity

Description: When formulating a personal investment strategy, the application of a disciplined methodology can lead to more rational decision making by the investor. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005

Description: Asset Liability Management (ALM) is a vital function in insurance operations, focusing on the strategic alignment of assets and liabilities to enhance risk-adjusted returns while ensuring compliance with regulations and fulfilling policyholder commitments. The rise of negative credit spreads poses a fundamental challenge to conventional ALM models, compelling insurance companies to reevaluate their investment strategies, hedging techniques, and risk management practices. This analysis indicates that negative credit spreads bring both considerable challenges and distinct opportunities for insurers. Although they narrow profit margins and complicate traditional spread-based investment approaches, they also offer potential for capital gains and alternative revenue sources for insurers willing to adapt their ALM strategies accordingly.

Description: The Actuarial Research Clearing House (ARCH) is an informal communication providing current actuarial research to friends and members of the actuarial community. View the second issue for 2024.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Committee on Finance Research (CFR) is seeking proposals for research projects that will produce information, data, theoretical models and/or empirical tools useful to actuaries practicing in investment and other finance-related areas.