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2024

December

• Managing GDP Growth
• Risk Management’s Role in the Climate Transition
  This article is reprinted with permission from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (the original article source) and also Risk Management newsletter.

September

• Holistic Cashflow Matching Group Strategic Asset Allocation Framework for Multi-Line Insurers
• Innovative Volatility-Targeting Strategies for Lifetime Pension Pools
• Crossword Puzzle: They Say Crossword Puzzles Can’t Have Single Letter Answers…

April

• Enhanced Liability-Driven Investing (LDI): Looking Beyond Annuities and Public Bonds to De-risk the Plan
• Introduction of Cashflow Matching Strategic Asset Allocation Framework
• Crossword Puzzle: Last Name First

2023

September

• Real Options in Radical Uncertainty: Part 1—The Nature of Risk and Uncertainty
• Real Options in Radical Uncertainty: Part 2—The Limits of Financial Option Theory
• Crossword Puzzle: Everyone’s a (Dia)critic

February

• How Do You Value Priceless?
• Where Did all the Optimism Go?
• Crossword Puzzle: Soooo Punny

2022

June

• Low Interest Rates and the NAIC Economic Scenario Generator Project
• Why Glide Paths Should Evolve

February

• Optimism Bias and Market Recoveries
• Deep Learning for Liability-Driven Investment
• What Machine Learning Can Do for You
• Crossword Puzzle: Zero

2021

September

• Decentralized Finance—In Plain English!
• Defending Your Shorts!
• LIBOR Transition End Game
• Crossword Puzzle: The Big Four

June

• Chairperson’s Corner
• 2020: What are the Takeaways for Actuaries?
• The Changing Landscape of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market

February