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  • April issue of The Modeling Platform
    MODELING PLATFORM MODELING SECTION Some mortality table sets have many demographics, which leads to ... associated with them. Figure 2 Structure of Mortality Table Set With Multiple Demographics Tidy Data ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • GAAP Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts: Ramifications for the Modeling Actuary
    common variable annuity (VA) and fixed indexed annuity (FIA) MRBs in Table 1. Table 1 Common Market ... historical assumptions, which includes loading mortality rates, coding dynamic lapse formulas and implementing ...

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    • Authors: Jean-Philippe Larochelle, Ryan Laine, Dave Czernicki
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Economic Scenario Generators, Part I: Motivation for Stochastic Modeling
    Generator (AIRG), the most commonly used ESG by U.S.-based actuaries. See Figure 1 for an overview of ... assigning a market-consistent value to a variable annuity (VA) product with a guaranteed minimum accumulation ...

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    • Authors: Dean Kerr, Matthew Zhang, Rahat Jain
    • Date: Nov 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Writing Effective Model Documentation
    model, such as dynamic lapses or experience mortality, it would be appropriate to include them in the ... should be documented for a represen- tative “cell(s)” used in the aggregation variations in modeling for ...

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    • Authors: Jeffrey Scott Jardin
    • Date: Nov 2019
    • Competency: Communication; Professional Values
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Reflections on an Epidemic
    had to wait in line for quite some time for a table for seven, but I didn’t even mind—I was so grateful ... don’t know about you, but I remember New Year’s 2000 almost like it was yesterday. And now we were heading ...

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    • Authors: Paul Conlin
    • Date: Aug 2020
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency
  • Modeling Q&A with Lei Rao-Knight
    modeling work do you do, and what soft- ware platform(s) do you use? We focus on asset-liability management ... recently was we needed to build a blending rate table in AXIS. However, it appeared to only allow equity ...

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    • Authors: Benjamin Neff
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications
  • The Modeling Platform, November 2020
    assign the universal life model conversion to the annuity team or vice versa. You could assign a pricing ... practices to other locales. For example, if the annuity group has streamlined its assumption review and ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Nov 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Pictures of Super Models
    MODEL? While my firm’s particular focus is on annuity policyholder behavior models, the key underlying ... to model the probability that a fixed indexed annuity contract makes a partial withdrawal in a given ...

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    • Authors: Timothy S Paris
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Policyholder or participant behavior - Experience ; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Economic Scenario Generators, Part III: In-depth ESG Case Study—Academy Interest Rate Generator
    According to the Academy, starting from 1950s monthly S&P data: Return percentiles fit history tightly. Show ... shown in Figure 8. Figure 8 Monthly S&P Returns When comparing AIRG S&P 500 projections against a lognormal ...

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    • Authors: Rahat Jain , Dean Kerr, Matthew Zhang
    • Date: Jul 2021
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Letter from the Editor
    Letter from the Editor Overview of the issue. model validation;model efficiency;asset ... sessions sponsored by our section at the 2016 Life & Annuity Symposium. These sessions dealt with model governance ...

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    • Authors: Phillip Schechter
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods