Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 3A: Mortality Inequality: Impact of Socioeconomic Factors

Description: The purpose of this paper is to help practitioners and regulators more accurately quantify the potential impact of market risk on insurance products with equity-linked guarantees. To this end, this paper examines time series model selection and assessment based on residuals, with a focus on regime switching models. Also it discusses the difficulties in defining residuals for such processes and propose several possible alternatives. We determine that a stochastic approach to defining the residuals is the only way to generate residuals that are normally distributed under the model hypothesis.

Description: This paper examines the potential impact of increasing negative commentary by social media users in multiple forums, which can erode the “reputation capital” of a utility. It also offers an approach for successfully addressing that risk and integrating social media risk management practices into existing utility enterprise risk management (ERM) programs.

Description: In this paper we compute the conditional and unconditional probability of ruin for an individual who wishes to consume a fixed periodic amount from an initial endowment invested in a portfolio earning a stochastic rate of return. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. This paper investigates dynamic properties of age trajectories of physiological indices and their effects on mortality risk and longevity using longitudinal data on more than 5,000 individuals collected in biannual examinations of the Framingham Heart Study original age group during about 50 subsequent years of follow up.

Description: This paper suggests that individual decisions to retire are based on personal resource allocations, institutional influences, and social standards. The paper then attempts to create a decision-making framework in which to accommodate this range of influences. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. The authors' stated proposal is to keep formal compliance Key Performance Indicators to support Risk Management system implementation and to have a business plan based on risk assessment.

Description: Experts' discussion of symposium papers. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: This paper presents a value-at-risk platform for integration of assets and liabilities in a rigorous risk management framework. The model measures all major risks faced by a P&C company. The paper demonstrates how this new technology can be used to assist in maximizing capital efficiency and migrating from a risk management environment governed almost exclusively by ad-hoc rules of thumb to one governed by true risk management principles. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: This presentation concentrates on the regression analysis of three waves of data 2001, 2003, and 2005 from the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey CAMS. The CAMS collects consumption data from a random subset of respondents in the Health and Retirement Study HRS . The HRS is a nationally representative sample of persons who were aged 51 to 61 in 1992 and their spouses or partners. The survey is longitudinal in nature, with the baseline interview conducted in 1992 and subsequent waves occurring every two years. [Comments on long-term care needs and reverse mortgages will be offered at oral presentation without quantitative data.] From 'Needs and Spending in Retirement: Unraveling the Mystery' Symposium, Washington, D.C. October 2007.