Description: Patenting in the insurance business has developed into a robust discipline. Insurance company management and legal counsel must consider a variety of issues involving intellectual property rights.

Description: The Long and Short (Runs) of Investing in Equities by Peter Yoo from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, March 1999, Issue No. 32.

Description: Suspension of 30-year Treasury auctions will have minimal impact on bond market structure in the near term, but over the mid- to long-term, consequences could be profound. This article discusses that impact the suspension of the 30-year treasury will have.

Description: The Case Against Stock in Corporate Pension Funds

Description: This article discusses how FHLB advances, i.e. low cost loans, can supply valuable risk management benefits. By carefully structuring an advance to mature coincident with the anticipated premium inflows generated by insurance products, a company can largely eliminate future net cash flows and consequently the need to invest them in uncertain capital markets.

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: Announcement of an upcoming 2003 Stochastic Modeling Symposium.

Description: This article, with some humor, describes a movement known as “econophysics” of physicists modeling economic systems, including capital markets, using techniques and concepts developed in studying the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of complex systems. A version of this article appeared in The Actuary UK in August 2004. Reprinted with permission.