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  • Percentile Pension Cost Methods: A New Approach to Pension Valuations
    Percentile Pension Cost Methods: A New Approach to Pension Valuations Traditional pension cost methods ... 45. Defined benefit plans=DB plans;Pension valuation;Statistical methods; 2708 10/1/1993 12:00:00 ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Product Matters! August 2002, Issue No. 53
    INTRODUCTION The 1975-80 select/ultimatemortality table has continuedto serve the actuarial profes- sion ... adjustments were made as an attempt to keep this table current. All prototypes, however, need to be re- ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Colin M Ramsay, Wayne Stuenkel, Larry Warren, Mary J Bahna-Nolan
    • Date: Aug 2002
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Pension Section News, April 2002, Issue No. 49
    Report of the PBGC and the complete 2001 Actuarial Valuation Report, including additional actuarial data tables ... separate Actuarial Valuation Report is to provide greater detail concerning the valuation of future benefits ...

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    • Authors: Paul Angelo, Donald S Grubbs, Steven F McKay, Marilyn Miller Oliver, Colin M Ramsay, Anna M Rappaport, Carl Shalit, Joan Weiss, Edward Sypher, John Riley
    • Date: Aug 2002
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
  • An Introduction to Business Credit Insurance
    obvious analogy between the life and death of an individual and a business. Because of the short-term nature ... tables are patterned after their calculations. Table 1 shows the number of months (12p/i) after which ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Banking - Finance & Investments
  • Modeling the AIDS Epidemic by Analysis of Sexual and Intravenous Drug Behavior
    extending for 25 years from date of HIV infection (see Table 9 of that paper). This scale was based on a study ... SFCC/CDC rates) [9]. Table 1 compares these two scales of progression rates. TABLE 1 COMPAR(SON OF ...

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    • Authors: Beda Chan, Michael Cowell, Charles S Fuhrer, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Peter W Plumley, Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1989
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • AIDS and the Calculation of Life Insurance Functions
    to AIDS will increase. AIDS thus presents the valuation actuary with numerous problems, the major one ... ([9], chapter 15), than to a multiple decrement table. This 396 AIDS: CALCULATION OF LIFE INSURANCE ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay, Eric Seah, Elias Shiu, J. C. Smith
    • Date: Oct 1989
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Loading Gross Premiums for Risk Without Using Utility Theory
    experiment." He defines risk as " . . . the individual evaluation of the uncertainty surrounding the ... contracts. The Society of Actuaries Committee on Valuation and Related Matters classified the risks faced ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM
  • A Practical Algorithm for Approximating the Probability of Ruin
    distributions and ruin probabilities, specifically: 1. Table 1 uses the results provided by Willmot [33] for ... and a loading of 0 = 0.25. 2. Table 2 uses Grandell's [20, table 1, p. 20) gamma distribution with ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1992
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • On The Moments Of Compound Interest Functions When Interest Varies As An AR[2] Process
    On The Moments Of Compound Interest Functions When Interest Varies As An AR[2] Process It is ... (1.1) a"L'rlid. Pal\j<", and Bellhousl' (1980, Table l} demonstrated that in most situati0lis the roots ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Jan 1985
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • The Impact of Mortality on Panjer&#39;s Model of AIDS Survival
    The Impact of Mortality on Panjer&#39;s Model of AIDS Survival This is a sequel to Panjer&#39;s ... are treated as physiologically sequential, an individual may pass through stages so quickly relative to ...

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    • Authors: Colin M Ramsay
    • Date: Oct 1990
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Health & Disability>Health risks