Description: This article provides brief descriptions of the computer science sponsored sessions in the May and June spring meetings. Article from CompAct, May, 2004, Issue No. 17.

Description: An interview with Mac Kurata, an actuarial recruiter.

Description: We apply grouped functional time series forecasting methods to produce point forecasts of mortality rates at older ages and price fixed-term annuities.

Description: One-page overview of monograph contents. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1.

Description: By disinformation we mean the inclusion of data that should not be considered in a study. In this paper we discuss a case in which the presence of disinformation was clear, but it was not possible to determine with certainly which records were extraneous.

Description: Sooner or later a casualty actuary is confronted by the question, Given a history of paid loss amounts by calendar year, what should reserves be? Often, it is not possible to accurately gather and analyze additional data within the time constraints for the reserving decision. The algebraic reserving method presented in this paper offers one approach to rapidly addressing this problem. The paper consists of four sections - General Considerations, Formulas, Examples, and Conclusion.

Description: Charts for An Extreme Value Analysis of Advanced age Mortality Data. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: A call for articles for the Technology Section’s newsletter CompAct.

Description: Article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that talks about the E&R section elections and announces the winners.

Description: Bibliography. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-01.