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Annuity Valuation with Dependent Mortality
Annuity Valuation with Dependent Mortality This paper investigates the use of models of dependent mortality for determining annuity values. We discuss a broad class of parametric models using a ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Edward Frees, Emiliano Valdez
- Date: May 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
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An Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality
An Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality This article investigates the properties of the Gompertz distribution function. Explicit formulas for continuous life insurances and annuities ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes
The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes Multiple decrement theory traditionally is based on the assumption that competing causes of decrement are ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Estimation of a Multivariate Copula
Estimation of a Multivariate Copula This paper develops the formula for estimation of multivariate copula. These results can be applied to the estimation of correlation coefficients. From the ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Mixed Lognormal Distributions
Mixed Lognormal Distributions In this paper, the unconditional probability density functions of portfolio claim amounts based on several assumed risk distributions are found. From the ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Christina Ho
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Research Studies Multiple Lives Dependency Risk In Annuities
Research Studies Multiple Lives Dependency Risk In Annuities Summary of the SOA's Annuity Valuation with Dependent Mortality research report which examines the standard industry practice ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Edward Frees
- Date: May 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
- Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities
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New Salary Functions for Pension Valuations
New Salary Functions for Pension Valuations This paper investigates salary functions as they are used in the valuation of pension plans. Pension actuaries may find many of the ideas in this ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Kevin Shand
- Date: Jan 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
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A Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution
A Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution This article discusses a continuous estimator of a mixing distribution. Specifically the estimator investigated is a mixture of gamma ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Simulating Random Variates from Makeham's Distribution and from Others with Exact or Nearly Log-Concave Densities
Simulating Random Variates from Makeham's Distribution and from Others with Exact or Nearly Log-Concave Densities This paper describes how Markov chain Monte Carlo and related methods ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, John A Mereu, Gordon E Klein, David Scollnik, Jeffrey S Pai
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Nonparametric Tests for Heterogeneity of Risk
Nonparametric Tests for Heterogeneity of Risk Consider a portfolio of insurance policies where the mean frquency of claims for each policy may vary. A reasonable assumption is that the number of ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods