Description: The abstract for the paper The Importance of Being Transparent: Theory and Implementation Specifics for an Integrated Risk Measurement Model for P&C Companies.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper on what the vital features of an economic scenario generator are.

Description: Panelists discuss their research about the correlations between changing economic and other external trends and long-term disability claims. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 33OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This is a discussion on the probable effects of medical advances on longevity. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13 Pt. 2

Description: This paper deals with the level and age trajectory of mortality at advanced ages in Canada, based on population data.

Description: This paper helps the audience understand the actuary’s role in estimating the financial impact of primary care programs. In addition, the paper can be used by actuaries to think about key issues when estimating the financial impact of their employers’ and clients’ own primary care programs.

Description: This paper presents a generalized profits released model which resolves the difficulties of the traditional analysis posed by products that have fluctuating profits and losses over time or have no initial investment. Discussions of the paper are included.

Description: Estimation of hazard rates at extremely old ages poses serious challenges to researchers: 1 The observed mortality deceleration may be at least partially an artifact of mixing different birth cohorts with different mortality heterogeneity effect 2 Standard assumptions of hazard rate estimates may be invalid when risk of death is extremely high at old ages 3 Ages of very old people may be exaggerated. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, which gives an opportunity to resolve the first two problems by compiling data for more homogeneous single-year birth cohorts with hazard rates measured at narrow monthly age intervals. Possible ways of resolving the third problem of hazard rate estimation were elaborated.

Description: Study of the Effect of a Flu Pandemic on Economic Values Using the Delphi Method

Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing whether or not the retirement age needs to be increased.