Description: Examines the mortality experience of charitable annuities and compares the mortality rates of the beneficiaries to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table Basic. The analysis includes mortality by sex, duration, age and type of charitable organization.

Description: This SOA study covers the economic costs of overweight and obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability in the US and Canada. It includes and examination of the prevalence of obesity and the trends, and the effect of obesity on medical conditions.

Description: Web page for posting research paper that explores the impact of ETS exposure on mortality and morbidity and the possible related consequences for the insurance industry.

Description: The Fellowship Admission Course FAC is one of the proposals contained in the White Paper on Future Education Methods for the Actuarial Profession, circulated by the E&E Committee in early 1987. FEM proposals were developed with three primary objectives.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting reviews surplus management strategies. Topics addressed include risk-based capital RBC, reinsurance, growth and profitability, cost of capital, and required surplus.

Description: This web page provides an introduction to the results of a research project that explored the covariance and correlation among various insurance and non–insurance risks in the context of risk based capital. Links are provided to the report which is entitled 'A Procedure for Simulation with Constructed Copulas,' an RBC covariance bibliography, and an excel spreadsheet that provides an example of a constructed copula.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. List of sessions at the 1993 SOA Meeting in Quebec with no written record. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 3.

Description: This was a list of workshops sessions which were held at the 1978 Chicago Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries with the names of those who served as Workshop Chairmen and Co-Chairmen.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the various ways a mutual company might attempt to access the capital markets and the various procedures and instruments that might be employed to acquired capital.

Description: This report describes a simple way to construct a bivariate copula with specified marginals and partially specified dependence. For example, the method allows one to model tail behavior scenarios while holding the core of the joint distribution fixed. An Excel workbook named CopulaExample.xls is provided to illustrate the method, including its use in Monte Carlo simulation.