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Select and Ultimate Models in Multiple Decrement History
Select and Ultimate Models in Multiple Decrement History Usual treatments of multiple-decrement theory are on a nonselect basis, with all rates of decrement depending only on attained age. This ...- Authors: S. Promislow, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies
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Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Interest-Rate Contingent Claims
Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Interest-Rate Contingent Claims This paper discusses the pricing of bond options and interest-sensitive cash flows by discrete state/time models such as binomial ...- Authors: Elias Shiu, Application Administrator, Hal Warren Pedersen
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Economic value
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Equivalence of Reserve Methodologies
Equivalence of Reserve Methodologies This paper considers policies with annual premiums and discusses four types of life insurance reserves calculations: curtate, fully continuous, discounted ...- Authors: Keith Sharp, Elias Shiu, Serena Ee Ik Tiong
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
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Evaluation of the Rollover Option
Evaluation of the Rollover Option The purpose of this paper is to examine a special case of option pricing theory in which the insurance company promises the customer to exercise the option for ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
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How Fast Is Mexico Increasing?
How Fast Is Mexico Increasing? This paper presents how to compute how fast a country is growing. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991 VOL.2. Analytics and informatics;Demographics ...- Authors: Elias Shiu, JINXIA MA
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Demography>Population data
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AIDS: Survival Analysis of Persons Testing HIV+
AIDS: Survival Analysis of Persons Testing HIV+ The purpose of this paper is to provide a survival analysis of persons in the various stages of HIV infection typically leading to AIDS and ...- Authors: Beda Chan, Mark Evans, Harry H Panjer, Elias Shiu, J. C. Smith
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity
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Multivariate Immunization Theory
Multivariate Immunization Theory This paper discusses extending the general nonparallel shift approach to duration analysis developed previously and explores the immunization model within the ...- Authors: Robert Reitano, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
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Power Series of Annuity Coefficients
Power Series of Annuity Coefficients This paper uses the power series expansions in relation to the annuity coefficients presented in the 1987 Actuarial Mathematics textbook. From the ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1987
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Cash Flow Analysis by the Prudent Banker's Method, or Discounting Turned on its Head
Cash Flow Analysis by the Prudent Banker's Method, or Discounting Turned on its Head Traditional discounting is hazardous to corporate health unless, as this paper demonstrates, it is ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Mark Evans, Roger E Johnson, Thomas Marra, Claude Y Paquin, S. Promislow, William L Roach, Eric Seah, Elias Shiu, Courtland C Smith, Donald R Sondergeld
- Date: Oct 1987
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
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Practical Applications of the Ruin Function
Practical Applications of the Ruin Function This paper is intended to acquaint actuaries with a simple and practical application of the ruin function technique in the determination of the C-2 ...- Authors: John A Beekman, George E Reckin, Elias Shiu, John Snyder, Daniel J Schwark
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods