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A family member recently asked me the specifics of a few different life insurance policies and it got me thinking about the metamorphosis the insurance industry has undergone globally the last few years and how it came about. It is really quite remarkable. We have gone from an insurance industry operating in the status quo of managing specific asset or liability allocation pieces in relative

In my previous post, I said that C++, as a language choice for the implementation of an analytics library, is effectively mandated by the industry's expectations of high performance. In reality, well-written C++ can be very efficient, but it has to be well-written. The object model of C++ lets us cope with the ever increasing complexity of the calculations required to solve modern quantitative

This series addresses issues specific to domain of financial derivative valuation and risk measurement. However, before leaping into the domain itself, I'd like to cover some considerations of tools, process and architecture which are more general, applying to software systems in this and other domains. Programming Paradigm The overwhelming winner in this category is object-oriented programming

Risk magazine recently ran an interesting article. To extract a few choice phrases: Before, analysts could be abstract, and mathematical ability was prized; now they have to be pragmatic, and computer programming is the essential attribute the marginal impact on the capital position of any proposed trade needs to be known in advance, which means a complete recalculation at portfolio level and a