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  • Real-World Interest Rate Models and Current Practices
    Orduña, Marshall Lin and Jean-Philippe Larochelle A s actuaries we often find ourselves focusing on the ... substantially in the last decade as life and annuity products have become more complex. The need for ...

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    • Authors: Jean-Philippe Larochelle, Marshall Lin, Francisco Orduna
    • Date: Jul 2015
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Actuarial Sciences and Uncertainties
    actuaries have applied stochastic models to mortality and other processes in order to get a measure ... in June 1989. Dear Edith: Medicine in the Year 2000 I found Harry M. Oliver, Jt’s, article in the ...

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    • Authors: Francisco Bayo
    • Date: May 1988
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • A Handful of Economic Capital Model Observations
    and use of economic capital (EC) mod-els in the U.S. have certainly moved forward since the models were ... assumption. For instance, a “1 in 200 year” mortality assumption could lead the actuary to an influenza ...

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    • Authors: David M Walczak
    • Date: Nov 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risk Management
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Conditional Tail Expectation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Interactions Between Dynamic Lapses and Interest Rates in Stochastic Modeling
    the Policyholder Behavior in the Tail Variable Annuity Guaranteed Benefits Survey/C3 phase II 2009 Results ... withdrawal benefit (GMWB) rider on a variable annuity contract for example: Is it the Guaranteed Withdrawal ...

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    • Authors: Yuhong Xue
    • Date: Jun 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Quantifying Pandemic Risk
    potential impact that specific types of adverse mortality and morbidity risk—such as a pandemic— may ... Services (HHS).1 These scenarios provide both mortality and morbidity estimates that are useful for ...

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    • Authors: Nita Madhav, James Fullam
    • Date: Jan 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • A Computation Method for Discounting Stochastic Scenarios Under IFRS 17
    path-dependent discounting for scenarios. IFRS 17's requirement to discount best-estimate cashflows using ... a technique for calibrating each of the scenario's cashflows so that they can be discounted with other ...

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    • Date: Sep 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Critical Review of Stochastic Simulation Literature and Applications for Health Actuaries
    However, a recent call for proposals for modeling mortality and lapse risks in life insurance shows an expanded ... of simulation model, multi-state, dynamic life-table models (of which the PopMod model used by Lauer ...

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    • Authors: Louise H Anderson, Ian G Duncan, Katherine Hall, Brian C Martinson
    • Date: Sep 2007
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Are Your Scenarios on Target?
    basis for the scenarios, the assumed distribution(s) for parametric approaches or statisti- cal sampling ... Black-Scholes option implied volatility (Heston and Nandi 2000). If even more realism is required, i.e., combining ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Arithmetic vs. Geometric Mean Returns
    vs. Geometric Mean Returns by Douglas C. Doll Mortality Arbitage—Life and SPIA by Douglas C. Doll Features ... consumer/agent toarbitrage the difference in mortality assumptions between life products and single premium ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Implementing the Longstaff-Schwartz Model
    credibility is about 10^s (within perhaps one half an order of magnitude) and s is dimensionality, we see ... interpolation of estimated bond prices. H = UΛU’ where, U:= matrix of eigenvectors, the first four principal ...

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    • Authors: L SS
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models