Description: Abstract for a paper that attempts to identify defined benefit plan design principles that provide valuable employee benefits at reasonable costs. From The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Monograph, M-RS05-1. Presented at The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Symposium held July 14-15, 2005 in Washington, DC. This monograph is a case study.

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.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that introduces new methods such as Experimental Mathematics, Genetic Algorithms, Predictive Modeling, Deterministic Chaos, Fractal Geometry, Behavioral Economics, Cellular Automata and other topics in Complexity Sciences.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that gives an in-depth look at genetic algorithms - what they are, why they are important for actuaries, when to use them, and how to create them.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Project for Actuarial Science Education, which aims to help budding actuaries solve actuarial examination questions and master classroom material.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the relation between the two basic random events associated with human mortality: birth and death.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that deals with linear pricing rules and risk measures and introduces two kinds of compatibility between prices and risks.

Description: This paper presents a procedure that can be used to find an efficient frontier for the variability in the contribution rates for pension plans. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, January 1996, VOL. 1.