Description: This paper is a summary of the 16th International Congress of Actuaries held in Brussels on June 15, 1960. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: Brief introduction of the Committee's 1972 report on Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance and Group Long-Term Disability Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972 Reports

Description: This is an update of the previous report on Group Long-Term Disability Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972 Reports

Description: Summary of the Committee's report consisting of three sections: Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance, Group Long-Term Disability Insurance, Exposure and Claim Study - Sample of Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance.

Description: 1978 Report presenting the results of the continuing study of morbidity experience relative to Group Long-Term Disability Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978 Reports

Description: 1982 Report presenting the results of the continuing study of morbidity experience relative to Group Long-Term Disability Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982 Reports

Description: This is the Presidential Address by former SOA President, Daphne D. Bartlett focusing on her vision for the future of the actuarial profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1992: 1. 'Broken Promises: The Inside Story of the Failure of Executive Life' by Vic Modugno, 2. 'Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security' by Robert J. Myers, 3. 'Insurance Risk Models' by Harry H. Panjer and Godon E. Willmot, and 4. 'Social Security: What Every Taxypayer Should Know' by A. Haeworth Robertson. Notices of Social Security notes and studies are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol. 44.

Description: This paper presents a general law of mortality that is equal to a mixture of Gompertz, Weibull, Inverse-Gompertz, and Inverse-Weibull survival functions.

Description: The goal of this paper is to dispel the prevailing belief that American-style options cannot be valued efficiently in a simulation model by presenting a general algorithm for such valuation, and thus remove what has been considered a major impediment to the use of simulation models for valuing financial instruments. Discussions of this paper are included.