Description: This paper introduces the Bond Manager's Method for ALM which allows the impact of a change in interest rate levels on the present value of a stream of cash flows to be directly determined from the coupon rates and prices on benchmark bonds without the intermediate step of determining spot rates. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This paper analyzes the U. S. Treasury monthly interest rates from 1953 to 1992, and the daily rates from 1981 to 1992 for various forms of chaotic behavior. The primary analysis was in determining the Burst Exponent by the use of Rescaled Range Analysis. This paper also discusses other possible uses of Fractional Brownian Motion in Finance Theory, Macroeconomics, and Actuarial Science. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994 VOL. 1.

Description: This paper discusses the implications of the use of the fund of unreleased capital gains on common stocks as required surplus. By 'Unreleased Capital Gains' the author is talking about a situation where realized and unrealized capital gains are annually placed in a fund and a percent of that fund is released into income and/or surplus annually. Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1988, Vol. 3

Description: This is a summary of the talk given at the 27th Actuarial Research Conference regarding ruin theory. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 1.

Description: This paper explores the use of linear programming as a tool to guide policyholders in getting the most value out of their combined insurance and investment programs. Concentrating on flexible premium universal life within the tax environment of the United States, several linear programming models are developed that can be used at the point of sale, to select the most cost effective policy from those available in the marketplace, and after issue to maximize the present value of future cash flows on the policy of an insured who is in ill-health. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 3.

Description: This report looks at closed form models or 'exact solutions' in which calculus produces 'simple' formulae. The conclusion is that for Gaussian interest rate models we can solve the problem of an American option provided the option holder behaviour can be described by a force of option exercise which is linear or quadratic in the state variables.

Description: In writing this note on the relationship between total return, duration and convexity, it was author's intent to produce a better understanding of Redington's theory of immunization. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 2.

Description: This paper discusses simple interest, amortization and simplicity. The author asserts that compound interest is an improvement upon simple interest that makes the calculation of interest simpler. Likewise, exponential amortization is an improvement upon linear amortization that makes the calculation of amortization simpler. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990, VOL. 2.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers an optimal investment and risk control problem for an insurer under the mean-variance criterion.