Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at global investing. Areas discussed include rationale for investing globally, fixed income opportunities, a model for active global investing, and other issues.

Description: This paper reports on the findings of a working group established in 1999 by the SOA's Finance Practice Area to look at how the insurance industry measures and monitors risk through risk position reporting. Also the working group established industry standard practices in risk position reporting and reported on a number of areas for possible improvement in such reporting.

Description: Review and Preview of this year's Continuing Ed opportunities via the webinar medium for risk practitioners

Description: Focusing on the topic of Principle Based Reserves (PBR), the SOA offers on-demand education. The PBR series consists of ten micro-lessons providing foundational education on PBR and requirements of VM-20.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, October 1998, Issue No. 31.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, August 1999, Issue No. 33.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 8OF, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists explore risk quantification from multiple perspectives, including: value-at-risk techniques and their application in the financial services industry, internal risk-based surplus formulas, and an NAIC Risk-Based Capital [RBC] Update. They discuss the application of existing and emerging risk evaluation techniques to one’s company or client circumstances. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting describes and discusses methods that are currently used for quantifying credit risk, both from a portfolio perspective and an individual security perspective.

Description: This article notes that life insurance companies have long used sophisticated techniques for appraising capital investment, and explores the question of whether these techniques can be applied to other industries.

Description: Forming a view on what the tail looks like for various risk factors involves both technical know-how and considerable judgment. The presenters focus on what needs to be addressed when setting financial market risk and insurance risk assumptions, in particular when assessing the question of diversification and the treatment of tail dependencies between risks and lines of business: