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  • Applying Fuzzy Optimization to Risk Assessment
    Applying ... minimize their travel time (Nocedal and Wright, 2000). Areas of application of optimization also include ... 4 Nocedal, J. and Wright, S., 2000, “Numerical Optimization”, Springer Series in ...

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    • Authors: Marie Claire L Koissi, Arnold Shapiro
    • Date: Feb 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • A Summary of the Conclusions of a Survey of Post-EBISA Small Pension Plan Valuation Assumptions
    in pen- sion plan valllations deal almost exc l l s ive l¥ with large plans, with the result that very ... Naqhattan Stuffy. The data did not seem to indicate any s igni f icant ten- dency in the interest rates as ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro
    • Date: Jan 1978
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
  • Decision Making Under Conflicting Criteria for Actuarial Assumptions: An Expected Utility Model
    or losses. The actuary's "best estimate" of C is u in that the actuary believes that, if C ~ is defined ... The actuary's utility function can be denoted U(W-p, [(~-C[,r), where W represents his or her wealth ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro, Lisa Lipowski Posey
    • Date: Jan 1995
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • Fuzzy Logic in Insurance: The First 20 Years
    Fuzzy Logic in Insurance: The First 20 Years It has been twenty years since DeWit 1982 first applied fuzzy ... insurance;Life insurance;Premiums;Underwriting;Mortality risk; 14362 9/19/2008 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Changing Patterns of Retirement
    Changing Patterns of Retirement Our panel discusses research conducted by the SOA's ... panel discusses research conducted by the SOA's committee on post-retirement needs and risks current ...

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    • Authors: Robert Brown, Arnold Shapiro, Matt Drinkwater, J Gary Johnson
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Plan design
  • Conveying Actuarial Concepts
    useful instructional device. An example of such a table is shown in Figure 3, which compares accumulated ... presentation aid, passing the mouse over a cell of the table, highlights the cell and/or activates a popup window ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro, Schenley Hajek Hall, William J Gibbs
    • Date: Jan 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Technology & Applications
  • Fuzzy Post-Retirement Solvency Concepts: Some Preliminary Observations
    here, which takes the values SL S min min C CC min SC C S 0 C 0 1 0 C C (C) C C C C C0 − − ... LC (C) Figure 1, it is characterized as reverse-S-shaped. Note that at the low side, if the relative ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro
    • Date: Jul 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Risk management
  • An Overview of Probabilistic Fuzzy Systems -- Some Preliminary
    − ≥ ∈ . Other MF classes, such as the S-shaped and reverse-S-shaped, which are discussed below, can ... References Almeida, R. J., Baştürk, N., Kaymak, U., Milea, V. (2012) "A multi-covariate semiparametric ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro, Dabuxilatu Wang
    • Date: Apr 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Allocating Actuarial Resources Among Branch Offices
    the least total cost. Q!il_finiti.Q!l.2 Qf .!S!it.llQrd§ ~J!~lY £~i!it£• A supply center provides ... columns, known as a direct unit cost matrix,2 Table 3 is an examrle. Obi~ functioB• In the transportation ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Shapiro, JOHN MICHAEL MCADON
    • Date: Jan 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Valuation Techniques for Pension Plans
    of the considerable likelihood of fluctuations. Table i, which is ba_ed on the findings of a recent study ... and a maximtml of 125 percent of market value. TABLE 1 ASSET VALUATION METHOD Unadjusted Plan Market ...

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    • Authors: James L Clare, James J Cryan, Daniel F McGinn, Arnold Shapiro
    • Date: Oct 1978
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Funding