Description: This paper shows the mortality element can be partially isolated allowing an exact annuity value to be readily obtained at any interest rate. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1979, Vol.2.

Description: In estimating mortality rates from the experience of a life insurance company or employee-benefit plan, it is expedient, because of the movement into and out of the covered group on dates other than birthdays or policy anniversaries, to make some assumption about mortality over a fractional part of a year of age. This paper describes and develops the concept of 'exposure' with regard to the more commonly known methods of estimating the rate of mortality, and proposes a fourth methodology. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1978, Vol.2.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the method of Lagrange multipliers complete with simple examples. The author suggests that this methodology is ideally suited to the investigation of minimum variance plans. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1987 Vol. 1.

Description: This paper's objectives are to reduce the variation of life expectancy due to changes in the closing out method and give more homogeneous old age mortality surface for the Algerian population. The paper will also provide readers with a general methodology to extend mortality to old ages for the Algerian population starting from adult mortality data.

Description: This paper uses the power series expansions in relation to the annuity coefficients presented in the 1987 Actuarial Mathematics textbook. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1987 Vol. 1.

Description: This paper suggests a new model for the distribution of deaths between two adjacent integral ages which addresses existing discontinuities. Application of the model is shown and compared with the existing three popular models. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, Vol. 2.

Description: The author comments on the article Exposure Formulas Based on the Assumption of Uniform Distribution of Deaths written by T.N.E. Greville.

Description: The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of soft computing applications in actuarial science. Soft computing refers to modes of computing in which precision is traded for tractability, robustness and ease of implementation.

Description: The topic is graduation of raw mortality rates. The approach is to use operational bootstrapping, which produces results which could only be obtained by regular bootstrapping if an infinite number of random numbers were generated. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994 Vol. 1 .