Description: discussion of risk management and proper pricing of life insurance products.

Description: Optimization of the liabilities to minimize the required capital, enhance the enterprise risk management and maximizing the shareholder value.

Description: This Specialty Guide is designed to be a source of information for practitioners interested in: learning more about the subject of Economic Capital - definition, uses, tie-in to RBC and calculations - finding out about current market practices in this area, and getting acquainted with available literature on this topic.

Description: Measurement of the Volatility Risk of Traditional Actuarial Risks for use in pricing and reserving

Description: Panel discusses the selection of both economic and demographic assumptions in funding pension plans. They include the impact on selection of economic assumptions from the recently released Actuarial Standard of Practice [ASOP] No. 27, 'Selection of Economic Assumptions for Measuring Pension Obligations.' From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: An approach to quantify medical intervention savings when medical claims data is not available by leveraging overlapping measurement techniques.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 4B. Papers presented: Typology and Review of Measures of Human Aging, Longevity and Superlongevity with Applications to US Data and Some Implications for US Public Programs and, Mortality Measurements at Advanced Ages: A Study of the Social Security Master Death File

Description: An excerpt from the 2003 Annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used for the intermediate assumptions.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Project Oversight Group for research on economic assumptions has prepared a survey seeking input on economic assumptions needed to make a projection of a company's operation.

Description: Discusses claim reserves for group long-term disability [GLTD], group medical insurance, and small-group [under 25 lives] medical and dental insurance. Session 9 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.