Description: Actuaries, like other business professionals, communicate quantitative ideas graphically. Because the process of reading, or decoding, graphs is more complex than reading text, graphs are vulnerable to many sources of abuse. This is the abstract of a paper that will help creators design more effective graphs and will help viewers recognize misleading graphs. The paper summarizes guidelines for designing graphs that show important numerical information and gives examples of commonly encountered graphs that mislead and hide information. The complete paper appears in the April 1998 issue of the North American Actuarial Journal. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1998 Vol. 1.

Description: This abstract describes an investigation into the use of Fuzzy Set Methodology.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that summarizes of the curriculum and other features of the university actuarial science programs in North America. The report, includes most schools listed by the SOA as offering actuarial science courses including substantially all of the Course 150 material. This summary was prepared by the author for the SOA Career Encouragement Committee and is being presented at this Actuarial Research Conference to share the information with faculty involved with actuarial education in North America. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1996, Vol. 1.

Description: This abstract describes research related to Optional Coupon Reinvestment Bonds

Description: Abstract for the paper which gives a unified approach to modern credibility models by using the theory of estimating functions.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that deals with a recent modification of the Monte Carlo method known as quasi random Monte Carlo. Under this approach, one uses specially selected deterministic sequences rather than random sequences as in Monte Carlo. These special sequences are known as low discrepancy sequences and have the property that they tend to be evenly dispersed throughout the unit cube. For many applications in finance, the use of low discrepancy sequences seems to provide more accurate answer than random sequences.

Description: This is the abstract for a paper of Immunization Measures for Life Contingencies.

Description: The results of a mortality study for Canadian pensioners are presented. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 2000, Volume 1.

Description: Mortality rates for a local community are desired in conjunction with the calculation of health-adjusted life expectancy HALE, an indicator of population health.

Description: This paper presents a procedure that can be used to find an efficient frontier for the variability in the contribution rates for pension plans. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.