Description: Economic Scenario Generators

Description: In the wake of the pandemic, much of the insurance industry is now endeavoring to find sustainable, longer-term solutions among many forced innovations – and to ensure that temporary adaptations add value beyond mere change.

Description: COVID19 highlights the need for greater complexity expertise in risk management. Crisis like the current COVID19 pandemic and 2008 Financial meltdown and others help us to turn into focus inwards for introspection on how we can better manage our resources and provide a deeper understanding of what our objectives should be and how we can achieve them through applying complexity science.

Description: Abstract for Modeling Medical Cost Trends for Advancing Age in the Long Run

Description: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: This database, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Group Health,’ was prepared by the SOA Committee on Health Benefit Systems Research. The database includes more than 171,000 claims of $25,000 or more, representing over $10 billion in total charges. Fields include diagnosis 3digit ICD-9 code, type of coverage HMO, PPO, Indemnity, etc., claimant status employee or dependent, and charges split into hospital and non-hospital, in addition to claimant age and gender. In addition to the one page word document explaining the coding, there are two zipped text files, one of 1991 claims and one of 1992 claims.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the ASB proposed standard for pension economic assumptions. Topics included: 1. Methods of choosing discount rates. 2. Subsidiary assumptions that tie into discount rates. 3. Thoughts about the status report, comments received during the comment period, and insights into what the ASB is thinking about. 4. A financial viewpoint applied to economic assumptions.

Description: The average person spends from one third to one half of every waking hour thinking about the past or present. We talk to ourselves when we do. Psychologists have identified three steps you can take to make your self-talk more positive. This will make you happier and better able to achieve the goals you set at home and at work.

Description: This is the table of contents for presentations held at the Maui II Spring Meeting–June 22–24, 1998. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, 1998, Vol. 24, No. 2.