Description: This article provides background on managed target volatility funds and how they can be used for variable annuities and the mitigation of gap risk.

Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.

Description: The author suggests that the optimal use of capital requires one to find a way to strike a balance between the conflicting desires for maximizing long term profit and minimizing short term loss.

Description: Article Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances by Beard in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: It is now almost 120 years since Makeham extended Gompertz’s efforts to find a simple mathematical law which would reflect the mortality experience of a group of lives and also simplify the calculation of monetary values. This article discusses a radically different approach, relating mortality improvements to economic condition, proposed by Kohler and Alcock in an article in the Journal of Peace Research, Vol XIII entitled Economic Law of Life.

Description: John Naisbitt, in Megatrends, defined a megatrend as a general shift in thinking or approach affecting countries, industries and organizations. This article challenges actuaries to consider off-the-charts factors within their risk maps and consider their potential impact.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 10 that talks about tax laws and regulations. In particular, this article discusses the formula, developed by Charles T. Kemmerer, for calculating the remainder interest in a charitable remainder unitrust which falls on the death of the survivor of two or more persons.

Description: Diagram displaying the relationships between the various annuity certain functions.

Description: A morbidity-mortality table, as conceived by Prof. A. H. Pollard, F.I.A. of Australia, is a multiple-decrement table akin to the familiar combined mortality and disability table - meant to improve demographers understanding of the influences on mortality.

Description: This article is about how actuarial services can be applied to life care retirement communities.