Description: Examines the mortality experience of charitable annuities and compares the mortality rates of the beneficiaries to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table Basic. The analysis includes mortality by sex, duration, age and type of charitable organization.

Description: This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability. The Society of Actuaries breaks out the economic cost of overweight versus obesity for the U.S. and for Canada.

Description: This SOA study covers the economic costs of overweight and obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability in the US and Canada. It includes and examination of the prevalence of obesity and the trends, and the effect of obesity on medical conditions.

Description: This paper is an analysis of the mortality rates of beneficiaries of charitable gift annuities.

Description: This presentation is about actuaries evaluating the emerging demographic data in order to plan for the financial effects of AIDS. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 2.

Description: This paper uses the estimated unreported deaths in earlier periods to adjust the current policies in force and produces unreported values that are more consistent with the actual number of unreported deaths.

Description: This report describes a simple way to construct a bivariate copula with specified marginals and partially specified dependence. For example, the method allows one to model tail behavior scenarios while holding the core of the joint distribution fixed. An Excel workbook named CopulaExample.xls is provided to illustrate the method, including its use in Monte Carlo simulation.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion was about cash-flow testing as a management tool. The focus was on lessons learned from 1992 CFT and the expectation of lessons that can be learned in the future. Speakers addressed management use of CFT, CFT in risk management, CFT in profit enhancement, and the applicability to assets and liabilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting covers financial reporting isues arising from activities at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, FASB, Actuarial Standards Board, American Academy of Actuaries, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Federal Government.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about reinsurance accounting for life and health insurers. It covers both statutory developments and GAAP developments. Topics included: 1. NAIC model regulation and some of the specific state issues. 2. FAS 113, reinsurance accounting under GAAP accounting principles. 3. Fronting issues. 4. Disclosure reporting. 5. The role of reinsurance as one of several financial and capital management solutions available to insurance companies. 6. Business applications that flow out of the current accounting developments