Description: Summarizes two Social Security Administration Actuarial Notes by the author. One compares actual experience under the Medicare program for the first full year of operation with the cost estimates that were made early in 1965. The second analyzes the annual death rates of the United States population aged 65 and over, before and after Medicare, for fiscal years 1961-68.

Description: This paper was prepared to facilitate discussions with the New York State Insurance Department concerning price regulation and the application of minimum loss ratio standards for individual health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: This paper presents a statistical methodology based upon information theory, for adjusting mortality tables to obtain exactly some known individual characteristics, while obtaining a table that is as close as possible to a standard one. Followed by a discussion paper submitted

Description: Full version of The Actuary Supplement Newsletter September 1976

Description: A continuation of the conversation about principle-based reserves (PBR). Actuaries and an attorney discuss revisit federal-income tax-related issues as they relate to PBR.

Description: Guidelines for submission to the Executive Stock Option Experience Study.

Description: This article is a recap of the 2010 ERM symposium and the paper awards.

Description: This article argues that during boom times, it is virtually impossible to get regulators to oppose politicians who are being lobbied by financial services organizations, thus a bubble expands and a bust is inevitable.

Description: Full issue of the August 2013, Risk Management newsletter, French version.