Description: This articles offers an approach for accounting for executive stock options.

Description: Why Write Variable Products When You Can Put the Money Directly into the Stock Market?

Description: This article is about why actuaries should have integral roles within nearly every IT and business intelligence company serving the insurance industry.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: Panelists in this session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss current embedded value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between embedded value and fair value, and benefits and drawbacks of embedded value, fair value and other measurement systems for internal management purposes.

Description: Using Taiwan Complete Life Tables as the data source, a model is developed using reliability theory and the results of the proposed model are compared to Gompertz’s law.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This study investigates whether simulation-based models can be used to predict liquidity risk for banks, which must comply with Basel III by January 2015. The paper looks at the process of developing a measurement framework using Black-Scholes and Merton’s asset-based models to measure liquidity risk.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper first explores the current state and contributing causes of obesity. It then explores the mortality and health care costs of obesity. It ends with a discussion of its management.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for Session 4B: Mortality Projections from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for concurrent Session 6B: The Changing Face of Elder Care from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium.