Description: This paper is an analysis of the mortality rates of beneficiaries of charitable gift annuities.

Description: Examines the mortality experience of charitable annuities and compares the mortality rates of the beneficiaries to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table Basic. The analysis includes mortality by sex, duration, age and type of charitable organization.

Description: This paper uses the estimated unreported deaths in earlier periods to adjust the current policies in force and produces unreported values that are more consistent with the actual number of unreported deaths.

Description: This presentation is about actuaries evaluating the emerging demographic data in order to plan for the financial effects of AIDS. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion was about cash-flow testing as a management tool. The focus was on lessons learned from 1992 CFT and the expectation of lessons that can be learned in the future. Speakers addressed management use of CFT, CFT in risk management, CFT in profit enhancement, and the applicability to assets and liabilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting covers financial reporting isues arising from activities at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, FASB, Actuarial Standards Board, American Academy of Actuaries, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Federal Government.

Description: This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability. The Society of Actuaries breaks out the economic cost of overweight versus obesity for the U.S. and for Canada.

Description: This report describes a simple way to construct a bivariate copula with specified marginals and partially specified dependence. For example, the method allows one to model tail behavior scenarios while holding the core of the joint distribution fixed. An Excel workbook named CopulaExample.xls is provided to illustrate the method, including its use in Monte Carlo simulation.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists discuss emerging issues in both statutory and GAAP financial reporting. They discuss current activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, ‘NAIC,’ Financial Accounting Standards Board, ‘FASB,’ Actuarial Standards Board, ‘ASB,’ the American Academy of Actuaries, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, ‘AICPA.’ Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the various ways a mutual company might attempt to access the capital markets and the various procedures and instruments that might be employed to acquired capital.