Description: This paper discusses future projections of operations for both new and existing companies. The author proposes and discusses 3 basic methods - model office, analysis of operations and an 'overall method. The model office, being the most detailed, delves into how to approach each major item in the summary of operations.

Description: This paper investigates how the concepts of asset-liability matching can be used to shape investment strategy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: The theme of this paper relates to solving portfolio selection problems using linear programming. The authors extend the linear optimization framework for Conditional Value-at-Risk-based portfolio selection problems to optimization over a more general class of risk measure known as the class of Coherent Distortion Risk Measure. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2012 Vol. 1.

Description: This report, the second such report, presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This paper deals with the problem of determining the effect on reserves of variations in the assumptions. A general approach to this problem is presented and then used to extend Lidstone's theorem, mainly to cases involving a nonmonotone critical function. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: Six methods are presented for calculating the probability of ultimate ruin where the waiting times between claims are independent and identically distributed. Three of the six use Monte Carlo techniques. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 1

Description: The purposes of this paper were to help determine the level of adequacy of the 1964 Commissioners Disability Table as a basis for reserving disabled lives, and to provide individual insurers with information that might aid them in their deliberations concerning reserve adequacy and reserve table modifications. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: 1983 Report presenting an analysis of morbidity experience under individual medical expense policies in force during the 1981 and 1982 calendar years. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Reports

Description: Report on the Lapse and Mortality Experience of Post-Level Premium Period Term Plans

Description: 1984 Study covering experience of individual disability loss-of-time policies for 1982-1983. The study separates the first year of the benefit period, and combined second and third year experience of the benefit period. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984 Reports