Description: The financial reporting of insurance is necessarily a complicated process because of numerous and stringent regulatory requirements, the inherent difficulty in estimating both the probability and cost of long-term contingent events, product diversity, and new products, such as equity-linked annuities. This literature guide provides the user with a summary of representative sources of current general information for continuing education purposes.

Description: Lists literature which provides a good grounding in individual disability income: markets, product design, pricing, underwriting, claim management, reinsurance, morbidity experience, and reserves.

Description: This is the Introductory Study Note for the Society of Actuaries Individual Life and Annuities-DP, U.S. examination for Spring 2012 that will be given on Thursday, April 26th, from 8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Description: This is the Introductory Study Note for the Society of Actuaries Retirement Benefits-Design and Pricing, US examination for Spring 2012 that will be given on Thursday, April 26th from 8:30 a.m. –12:15 p.m.

Description: These are solutions for the questions in the study note titled, 'Society of Actuaries Exam MLC Models for Life Contingencies- Sample Questions.'

Description: This is the introductory parts of a textbook with this title: Table of Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, and bios of editor and authors. This text is for the use of students preparing for the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice Course requirement for achieving the ASA designation.

Description: This literature guide is a background reading reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is being published to offer guidance not only to actuaries seeking to gain knowledge on ALM as it relates primarily to life and health insurance, but also to practitioners in the property and casualty insurance and pension fields.

Description: This specialty guide is a background reading list reference for the practice of asset-liability management 'ALM'. It is intended to provide guidance to anyone seeking to gain knowledge regarding ALM, especially with respect to its application to financial security systems such as life or health insurance, property and casualty insurance and pensions.

Description: In actuarial practice there is notation and terminology that varies by country, by application, and by source. The purpose of this study note is to present notation and terminology that will be used on the Society of Actuaries Models for Life Contingencies [MLC] examination for situations where notation or terms may not be common to all sources and notation or terms that are unique to the MLC examination.

Description: This note points out that the non-linear parameter estimation technique presented in the Part 5 Study Note is in fact the Gauss - Newton method for the non-linear least-square problem.