Description: This article describes the primary goal of the Actuarial Research Clearing House [ARCH], its editorial policy and the procedure for submitting manuscripts. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992, Vol. 1.

Description: This article describes the primary goal of the Actuarial Research Clearing House [ARCH], its editorial policy and the procedure for submitting manuscripts. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 3.

Description: This article describes the primary goal of the Actuarial Research Clearing House [ARCH], its editorial policy and the procedure for submitting manuscripts. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992, Vol. 2.

Description: This article describes the primary goal of the Actuarial Research Clearing House [ARCH], its editorial policy and the proicedure for submitting manuscripts. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1991 Vol. 2.

Description: This research provides a literature review on the topic of post-retirement financial strategies from the perspective of an individual who is approaching retirement age. The body of knowledge surveyed is the post-retirement financial strategies literature that is related to the risks of longevity, inflation, and investment. The literature sources are both academic and practitioner-focused. The end product is a documentation of and commentary on the state-of-the-art in the post-retirement financial strategies area. The intended audience is retirement professionals, and others, who need to be well informed about the current state of post-retirement financial strategies, as reported in the literature.

Description: The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of soft computing applications in actuarial science. Soft computing refers to modes of computing in which precision is traded for tractability, robustness and ease of implementation.

Description: This paper presents a history of traditional topics like actuarial cost methods and assumptions, the history of past inquiries into the dynamic and stochastic nature of pension costs, and the perceptions and concerns of pension actuaries of the past. From The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Monograph, M-RS05-1.

Description: The two basic considerations in a pension plan valuation are the choice of actuarial cost methods and actuarial assumptions. This paper deals with the assumptions. The concern in this regard is what actuaries are doing and why. There are explicit criteria why particular assumptions are chosen, and these have often been discussed in the pension literature. However, there also are implicit criteria, which, while seldom discussed in the literature, can dominate the valuation. The goal of this paper is to quantify some of these criteria, and thereby provide a basis for further discussion and research.

Description: This article comments on the editorial policies of the Actuarial Research Clearing House publication. ARCH 2009.1

Description: ARCH is an informal electronic publication presenting current actuarial research, which the Education and Research Section of the Society of Actuaries offers to members and friends of the actuarial community. Read more from the editors.