Description: The abstract for a paper that focuses on when and how we retire.

Description: The abstract for the paper Capital Allocation by Percentile Layer.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that offers an estimate of Pricing Risk for general insurance risk capital based on a firm’s historical loss behavior as well as current performance.

Description: This abstract describes a study that reviews by simulation the current tools available for testing trends in time series and constructs and compares alternative probability distribution models, using a unique and comprehensive data set that represents the entire crop insurance sector of Canada.

Description: This is an abstract article on joint life mortality by Min Ji. ARCH 2008, Issue 1.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that examines the relationship between executives’ stock-based compensation and managerial risk-taking behavior in the property liability insurance industry.

Description: Abstract paper for Optimal Retirement Age.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements a lifetime utility model including both GMDB options and term life insurance and allowing the policyholder to optimize both consumption and fund allocation decisions.

Description: This is the abstract for the presentation on generalized additive models and mortality modeling: beyond Whitaker-Henderson.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the optimal reinsurance problem when risk is measured by a general risk measure. It is demonstrated that there is a “stable optimal retention” that will show no sensitivity, insofar as it will solve the optimal reinsurance problem for many risk measures, thus providing a very robust reinsurance plan.