Volume 10, Number 4

• Editorial
• Ten Years and Counting!
• Sam Cox

• Feature Articles
• Multivariate Extreme Value Theory and Its Usefulness in Understanding Risk

  Debbie J. Dupuis and Bruce L. Jones

• Validation of Long–Term Equity Return Models for Equity–Linked Guarantees

  Mary R. Hardy, R Keith Freeland and Matthew C. Till

• Modeling Disability in Long-Term Care Insurance

  D.J. Pritchard

• A Comparative Analysis of Chronic and Non–Chronic Insured Commercial Member Cost Trends

  Robert Bachler, Ian Duncan, and Iver Juster

• Using Reverse Mortgages to Manage the Financial Risk of Long–Term Care

  Barbara Stucki

• Immediate Annuity Pricing in the Presence of Unobserved Heterogeneity

  Kim G. Balls

• Valuation of Equity–Linked Insurance and Annuity Products with Binomial Models

  Patrice Gaillardetz and X. Sheldon Lin

• Optimal and Simple, Nearly Optimal Rules for Minimizing the Probability of Financial Ruin in Retirement

  Kristen S. Moore and Virginia R. Young

• An Extreme Value Analysis of Advanced Age Mortality Data

  Kathryn A. Watts, Debbie J. Dupuis, and Bruce L. Jones

• Development and Pricing of a New Participating Contract

  Carole L. Bernard, Olivier A. Le Courtois, and François M. Quittard–Pinon

• On the Expected Discounted Penalty Function for Levy Risk Processes

  Jose Garrido and Manuel Morales

  Discussion

• Compound Poisson Model with Covariates: A Case Study on Pet Insurance

  Jeffrey S. Pai, Kevin J. Shand and Xikui Wang

• Regime–Switching Periodic Models for Claim Counts

  Yi Lu and Jose Garrido

• Interval Estimation of Actuarial Risk Measures

  Thomas Kaiser and Vytaras Brazauskas

• Direct Derivation of Finite–Time Ruin Probabilities in the Discrete Risk Model with Exponential or Geometric Claims

  Wai–Sum Chan and Lianzeng Zhang

• Departments
• Discussion of Papers Already Published
• "Optimal Dividends in an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Type Model with Credit and Debit Interest"

Discussion by Zhaoxia Ren and Xiaowen Zhou

• Call for Papers
• American Risk And Insurance Association 2007 Annual Meeting
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• Changes to Submission Process
• New Submission Process Coming January 2007
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• Coming Attractions
• Upcoming Papers