Study Group: Actuaries(?)

Uncertainty breeds panic among people who seek to quantify risk, whether they do so judgmentally or with complex, elaborate "predictive risk models."  There is a dislocation taking place among the world's economies and the markets are simply struggling to quantify the meaning of the structural...

This article addresses issues about Florida Property Insurance that are important to policyholders, insurers, and the general public.  The basic thrust of my comments are to outline important actions for the state and the insurance regulators to take, and to explain why heavy regulation of insurance...

What Freddie Mac is doing now is supposed to do 3 years ago (a call from Allen Greenspan in May 2005), specifically to liquidate substantially with little disruption to the housing market in 2005.  The call from Allen Greenspan came at the time when the combined holdings (of mortgages and mortgage...

Wachovia follows what it takes to do right things to correct the pitfalls.

The characteristics of Nonstandard Auto insurance listed in this article are well known, and one can find information at the Casualty Actuarial Society website www.casact.org by entering a search string such as “nonstandard auto”.   Any business entering this market must understand the effect...