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  • Axioms for the Valuation of Payment Streams: A Topological Vector Space Approach
    Axioms for the Valuation of Payment Streams: A Topological Vector Space Approach This is an abstract ... abstract of the paper entitled 'Axioms for the Valuation of Payment Streams: A Topological Vector Space ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow
    • Date: Jan 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Cash Flow Analysis by the Prudent Banker's Method, or Discounting Turned on its Head
    effect of deaths and lapses, was as follows: TABLE 1 PROJECTED CASH FLOW ON BLOCK OF BUSINESS Year ... the computed rate of return on the cash flow in Table 1, by a "normal" or conventional discounting process ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Mark Evans, Roger E Johnson, Thomas Marra, Claude Y Paquin, S. Promislow, William L Roach, Eric Seah, Elias Shiu, Courtland C Smith, Donald R Sondergeld
    • Date: Oct 1987
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Measurement of Equity
    one possible definition of an actuary is an individual concerned with maintaining adequacy and equity ... and group B, such that the expected cost per individual of providing a certain insurance benefit is ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow
    • Date: Oct 1987
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
  • A New Approach to the Theory of Interest
    preferable; the choice will depend on the particular individual contemplating the transaction. It is this idea ... The answer depends on the circumstances of the individual making the decision. Example 6 adds further ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow
    • Date: Jan 1980
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Select and Ultimate Models in Multiple Decrement History
    select models. A nonselect model for a mortality table is often a reasonable approxi- mation. After all ... to give stochastic definitions to the mortality table items l ~/) and dO3, which have appeared in the ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow, Elias Shiu
    • Date: Oct 1991
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies
  • An Ex-Chair's Corner
    An Ex-Chair's Corner This article from the Chairperson discusses international actuarial ... sample exams. For a ten-year select-and-ultimate table, you are given that l[x]+t = { √ 60 9 ( 1− t100 ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow
    • Date: Jun 2004
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
  • Extensions of Lidstone's Theorem
    Extensions of Lidstone's Theorem This paper deals with the problem of determining the ... factors, such as the type of policy, the mortality table, the range of ages, and even the interest rate ...

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    • Authors: S. Promislow
    • Date: Jan 1981
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance