Description: Read the November 2019 issue of The Modeling Platform, published by the Modeling Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: 2011 SOA IFRS Seminar, Hong Kong. This is an Excel spreadsheet associated with Session 40 on 'Economic Scenario Generators' of the 2011 SOA IFRS Seminar held in Hong Kong. The spreadsheet facilitated the learning objectives of this workshop about ESG.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting looks at the construction of scenarios in futures studies. It discusses the four kinds of scenarios - the Demonstartion Scenario, the Driving Force Scenario, the System Change Scenario and the Slice-Of-Time Scenario. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: Modeling experience sharing by David Yu who leads the retirement product and asset model development team within Prudential Financial

Description: This article describes the proposal selected for research involving the modeling of economic series. The proposal submitted by the research team of Kevin Ahlgrim of Bradley University, Stephen D'Arcy of the University of Illinios and Richard Gorvett of Zurich North America was selected.

Description: When Is It Right To Use Arbitrage-Free Scenarios? by Stephen Britt from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, September 2000, Issue No. 35.

Description: This article discusses scenario generators to price or value insurance products.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Presenters discuss a method of mortality projection on various scenarios about terrorism that have been written by futurists given the events of Sept. 11. Attendees learn to use a futurism technique scenarios to address actuarial problems.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. A noted expert with a degree from the graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake discusses long-term forecasting and planning, the future of information technology and technology transfer, strategic planning and the development of future scenarios.

Description: Summary of the SOA research project on PBR Simplified Methods. Describes the multi-risk scenario generator, central estimate assumptions, assumption objectivity measures, and regulatory demonstrations per VM-20.