Description: February 2011 issue of the Investment Section newsletter, Risks & Rewards.

Description: Feature article describing the use of arithmetic means in the production of return results predictions.

Description: This article explains the 2009 changes to the Global Credit Default Swap contract and North American conventions. It is reprinted with permission from The Markit Magazine.

Description: Presents results of 2003-2012 cohorts of insurance company private placement bonds. Finds private bonds show a 15bp annual advantage relative to public bonds, due to lower loss severity.

Description: Uses Blackrock's macroeconomic and style factors in asset allocation examples for an insurance portfolio and a pension portfolio.

Description: Statistics were invented to describe heterogeneity and are now applied to tackle alea. It may not be appropriate. Let's clarify their field of relevance.

Description: Describes investment strategy targets used in the investment competition under way for investment section members in 2017.

Description: Asset modeling is becoming increasingly complex, detailed and important to insurance company financial reporting and risk management. This article describes the author's personal perspective on the current state of asset modeling in insurance companies and the future challenges facing actuaries who develop, maintain and use ALM models.

Description: Describes qualitative relationships among market factors that should be addressed in a successful "real world" calibration of a stochastic investment scenario set.

Description: Provides an update in the April - Sept 2015 contest organized by the section