Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes a comprehensive risk analysis of participating life insurance products with a particular focus on the impact of product design.

Description: The abstract for the paper Are At-Risk Measures Useful Measures of Risk at the Corporate Level?

Description: This is the abstract for the paper on the application of Esscher transform to the Regime Switching Model.

Description: The is the abstract for a paper that discusses retirement planning information and the signals it provides. It focuses on the issue of communicating lump sum versus income benefits. It discusses challenges in communicating income benefits and provides some alternatives.

Description: This is the Executive Summary of the results of a study, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation, which assesses the extent to which retirement planning software programs help users understand post-retirement risks.

Description: Accurate determination of the appropriate time to retire and replace a physical asset is important for large ensembles of such assets when taken as a whole, and concerns the fate of tens of trillions of dollars in assets, such as airplane engines, vehicles, or any other kind of physical asset susceptible to obsolescence. A decision model to accomplish this is derived using the concept of actuarial present value applied to an economic theory of cost minimization. Since this is a theory coupling investor wealth creation with the long-term optimization of the use of scarce resources, it can also be offered as an economic model relevant to sustainability.

Description: This is the Executive Summary of the results of a study, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation, which assesses the extent to which retirement planning software programs help users understand post-retirement risks.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Great Debate on the Outlook for Human Longevity: Exposition and Evaluation of Two Divergent Views.

Description: This abstract describes research that finds an explicit form of the discounted moments of the surplus at the time of the last jump before ruin for the compound Poisson dual risk model.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper on the determination of capital charges in a discounted cash flow model.