Description: Applying behavioral-science and shared-value principles to insurance is a win-win proposition for both insurers and clients.

Description: Introduction to academicians, practitioners, and gerontologists who comprise the Funding Longevity Task Force at the American College of Financial Services.

Description: Article suggests future steps with regard to this project and provides information on where to get the essays.

Description: Overview of regularization and least angle regression approaches.

Description: This article presents new funding instruments for equity-indexed life insurance and annuity products.

Description: The last few years have seen a dramatic change in the way that insurance products are priced. If we traveled back in time 15 to 20 years, we would see a world where most insurance products were priced on the basis of a few static scenarios. In the last several years, pricing on a stochastic basis has become more mainstream—at least for contracts with embedded guarantees.

Description: This paper adopts the framework whereby pension benefits are allocated one exit point at a time in some fashion to the years of service of those persons expected to leave at each exit point. Of particular interest is an allocation by interest-adjusted salary. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: This is a proof on Lidstone's theorem. It contains formulas for calculating policy dividends.

Description: This article looks at Enterprise Risk Management - ERM - and how executive compensation’s disconnect from long term stock performance has been a contributor to the current financial crisis. The author discusses the “Stock Performance Protection Plan,” or SSSP, and how it can encourage executives to buy into ERM. The author further discusses his plan, and the provisional patent he recently received.