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  • ACLI Update Column
    new tax law on 2017 financial statements. All U.S. accounting regimes require accounting for the effect ... capital and surplus, or both for insurers. The U.S. accounting standards setters immediately recognized ...

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    • Authors: Regina Y Rose, Mandana Parsazad, Paul S Graham, Pete Bautz
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • On a Formula of Nesbitt
    On a Formula ... 1 On a Formula of Nesbitt Elias S. W. Shiu Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science The University ... Nesbitt gave the formula 1 a nh|0 t dh = ln s n|s nt| , 0 t < n. (1) Variants ...

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    • Authors: Elias Shiu
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies
    Investment Fallacies E-book contains 16 topical essays that express the opinions and thoughts ... John Macleod Bitcoin Fallacies By Larry Zhao Gambler’s Fallacy: Probability of Reversion By Kailan Shang ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Leslie Smith
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Variance of Loss Functions for Term, Pure Endowments and Regular Endowments
    Variance ... fCov (L2, L3) -< 0. Proof. Let S = var L~ - var L: - var L 3 .'. S = var L 1 - var L~ - vat L 1 ... 2 - E2)(L 3 - E3) ] = -2 cov(L2, L 3) and S>0 only i fcov (L2, L0-<0 q.e.d. CASE 1 - Single ...

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    • Authors: John A Mereu
    • Date: Jan 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Life Insurance>Term life
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    In a survey by Ivo Welch (UCLA and Yale) in 2000, only 36 of 102 surveyed financial economists ... Other Issues’, Journal of Business 73-4, October 2000, 501-537. Simulation of Long-Term Stock Returns: ...

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    • Authors: Rowland Davis, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Investment Fallacies: The Myth of Time Diversification currency risk;investment ... Society of Actuaries 38 if then conditions: U(w) = (wλ–1) λ , with λ = -2. With this function ...

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    • Authors: Rowland Davis, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Investment Fallacies: Bitcoin Fallacies currency risk;investment ... times of the S&P 500 index, while the annualized return is about 350%, about 40 times of the S&P 500 index ...

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    • Authors: Larry Zhao, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Investment Fallacies e-book
    Investment Fallacies e-book Investment Fallacies: The Fable of the Storyteller and the Market ... the next day was due to an “unexpected decline in U.S consumer confidence”! A more serious current example ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Steven Scoles
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments
  • Claims Reserving When There Are Negative Values in the Runoff Triangle: Bayesian analysis using the three-parameter log-normal distribution
    Claims Reserving When There Are Negative Values in the Runoff Triangle: Bayesian analysis using the three-parameter log-normal distribution ... assume for all i = 1,…,k and t = 1,…,s. We know the values for .

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    • Authors: Enrique de Alba, Jose Gilberto Atondo Siu
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods
  • The Fallacy of the Fed Model
    The Fallacy of the Fed Model Investment Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Fed Model currency risk;investment ... In fact, reasonably good data exists for both U.S. equity market E/P and 10-year Treasury constant ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, David Cantor
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Finance & Investments>Investments; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Value at risk - Finance & Investments