Description: This study addresses some aspects of the financial impact on women under the Social Security benefits reform or redistribution.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Effects of Advanced Age Mortality Improvement on the Valuation of Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Death Benefits.

Description: This paper studies the impact of improved advanced age mortality on the pricing and valuation issues of variable annuity contracts with guaranteed minimum death benefits. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper introduces the predictive modeling tools to mortality research. The predictive modeling is applied to study how multiple risk drivers such as demographic characteristics and social and economic status impact the mortality improvement of the advanced age population. The paper provides both the theoretical frameworks and the application aspects of the predictive modeling process. As the result, a mortality risk score was derived in differentiating the mortality risk for the advanced age population.

Description: This paper introduces the predictive modeling tools to mortality research. The predictive modeling is applied to study how multiple risk drivers such as demographic characteristics and social and economic status impact the mortality improvement of the advanced age population. The paper provides both the theoretical frameworks and the application aspects of the predictive modeling process. As the result, a mortality risk score was derived in differentiating the mortality risk for the advanced age population.

Description: List of symposium/monograph contributors.

Description: This is a paper from the session on Life Expectancy Analysis at the January 15-18, 2023, 2023 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: One of the most important problems in Finance is the valuation of financial securities written on underlying assets whose prices are subject to uncertainty. This paper presents a technique to estimate the unknown stochastic volatilities by solving the inverse problem associated with the parabolic partial differential equation governing risk neutral derivative security prices. This technique can be applied in a very general multi-factor setting and numerical examples are provided.

Description: Traditional mean-variance method does not take skewness of the random rate of return into consideration. It only considers minimum variance for a given acceptable rate of return, which limited the probability of obtaining higher rate of return. If the skewness of return for the portfolio is incorporated into model of traditional approach, then the resulting non-linear programing model is not computational efficient, which certainly is complicated. On the other hand, possibilistic programming provides more efficient techniques to solve the imprecision nature of rate of return and also preserves the original linear model.