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Credibility Formulas of the Updating Type
OF THE UPDATING TYPE* DONALD A. JONES AND HANS U. GERBER ABSTRACT A credibility formula is said ... Brownian motion in physics. I. INTRODUCTION L S I, S '2, S s, . . . be a sequence of random variables, for ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, PAUL ROBERT MILLER, Myron Henry Margolin
- Date: Oct 1975
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods
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A Family of Accrued Benefit Actuarial Cost Methods
(p.p.d.f.). Our discussion will center on p.p.d.f.'s such that re(x) >_ O, a ~_ x "~ r, and f, 'm(x)dx ... accelerating cost method; if s < O, this method will result in a decelerating one. As s--* O, we note that this ...- Authors: Steven L Cooper, James C Hickman
- Date: Jun 1967
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Funding
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Abstracts
Seal, is repr in ted f rom The Actuary . Th is i s fo l lowed by f lve le t te rs respond ing to ... le . The der ivat ion of exposure fo rmulas i s d i scussed . Two o f the le t te rs d i scuss ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Ralph Garfield, James C Hickman, Warren Luckner, Arnold Shapiro, Elias Shiu, Hung-Ping Tsao, Joseph Tupper, Patrick L Brockett, JOHN MICHAEL MCADON, LORI LYNN SCHUMACHER, DAVID C WU
- Date: Jan 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Analysis of the Rapidly Expanding Company
115 For United States and Canadian companies Table 1 compares the aver- age net interest rate earned ... forty-year period for both United States and Canadian TABLE 1" LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY GROWTH VERSUS INTEREST ...- Authors: Mohamed F Amer, James C Hickman, J Bruce MacDonald, Peter L J Ryall, Bert A Winter
- Date: Mar 1963
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Public Policy
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A Retrospective on 50 Years of Advances in Theory and Practice of Finance
A Retrospective on 50 Years of Advances in Theory and Practice of Finance This session ... Finance This session reviews the past half century's advances in finance such as immunization and hedging ...- Authors: James C Hickman, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Economics>Financial economics
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New Textbook On Life Contingencies
individuals. If everybody died exactly according to the mortality tables, there would be no need for insurance. ... reserves, we use conservative interest rates, loaded mortality tables and age setbacks. Parenthetically, age ...- Authors: Linden Cole, James C Hickman, Robert McKay, James Murphy
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Book Reviews and Notices
Book Reviews and Notices This section contains reviews for the following books, Introduction to the ... Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43. Demographics;Mortality rates=Mortality tables=Death rates ; 2668 10/1/1991 ...- Authors: Edward Cowman, Kenneth W Faig, James C Hickman, Robert J Johansen, Anthony B Richter
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Demography; Experience Studies & Data
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Social And Demographic Changes
Social And Demographic Changes This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the recent data ... security. Birth rates;Life insurance;Mortality rates=Mortality tables=Death rates ;Social Security; ...- Authors: James C Hickman, Anna M Rappaport, Mathew Greenwald
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Demography
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Introduction to the Dynamics of Pension Funding
populations subject to fixed rates of fertility and mortality (see, for example, Keyfitz [7]). This theory ... for a participant aged x at time 0 is s(x), a <_ x < r, and that s(x) remains as a base factor for salary ...- Authors: Newton L Bowers, James C Hickman, Cecil J Nesbitt
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Funding
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Why Not Random Interest?
and actuarial science started together. A life table provides an estimate of the distribution of time ... risk. Can these scenarios be used with a life table in a model that will combine the random nature ...- Authors: James C Hickman
- Date: Feb 1985
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
- Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods