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Exchange Rate Dynamics in Mixed-Currency Medical Insurance Plan Environments
a monthly basis. Also, this policy design with dynamic values pegged to a foreign currency may face legal ... other countries. In effect, recognition of this dynamic in the model would be one form of introducing changes ...- Authors: Frank E Finkenberg, Kevin Law
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Graduation by Kernel and Adaptive Kernel Methods with a Boundary Correction
Verrall [58] views Whittaker graduation as a dynamic generalized linear model. 2.2.1 Choice of Kernel ... like to thank Glenn Stone for the use of his dynamic spline fitting program. It was used to produce ...- Authors: Steven Haberman, Richard Verrall, JOHN EMMETT GAVIN
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The UP-94 and GAR-94 Tables: Issues in Choosing the Appropriate Table
particular state. Since most states have adopted the Dynamic Valuation Law, these reserves are based on standard ... considered crucial, as opposed to approximating the dynamic table with a projected static one. Of course, ...- Authors: Christopher M Bone, Lindsay Malkiewich, Marilyn Miller Oliver, Application Administrator, Henry N Winslow
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
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Operations Research in Insurance: A Review
approaches: network op- timization, goal programming, dynamic programming, chance-constrained programming, and ... network optimization (NO), goal programming (GP), dynamic programming (DP), and chance- constrained programming ...- Authors: Patrick L Brockett, Xiaohua Xia
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications
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Dynamic Solvency Testing: Boundaries of Risk Definition Phase
Dynamic Solvency Testing: Boundaries of Risk Definition Phase This report identifies the risks that ...- Authors: Donna Claire
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting
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Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model
Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model The goal of this paper is to dispel the ... compute these radii fully captures the rel- evant dynamic process. For the simple stock case presented in ...- Authors: James A Tilley
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models
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Loading Gross Premiums for Risk Without Using Utility Theory
Loading Gross Premiums for Risk Without Using Utility Theory This paper cautions against using ... any stage and the information he obtains in the dynamic evolution of his problem. We have shown that if ...- Authors: Colin M Ramsay
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM
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Duration-Based Policy Reserves
Duration-Based Policy Reserves This paper proposes a hypothesis that the negative public ... trend) over increasing premiums. • It provides a dynamic methodology for adjusting for deviations of actual ...- Authors: Application Administrator
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Research Report on Selected Dynamic Solvency Testing Topics
Research Report on Selected Dynamic Solvency Testing Topics The purpose of this reports is to define ... currently available in support of the development of dynamic solvency testing, DST. The paper covers topics ...- Authors: Allan Brender, Donna Claire
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
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The Potential Role of Dynamic Solvency Testing in Preventing Insolvencies of Insurance Companies: A Historical Perspective
The Potential Role of Dynamic Solvency Testing in Preventing Insolvencies of Insurance Companies: A Historical ... Research paper presenting the potential role of Dynamic Solvency Testing, DST, in preventing the insolvency ...- Authors: Robert S Fillingham
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
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Nonparallel Yield Curve Shifts and Convexity
price to A(0)? (4) All arguments ignore the time dynamic: What is the relationship be- tween Ai and At ... classical models, "[a]ll arguments ignore the time dynamic." This is one of his reasons for introducing a ...- Authors: Robert Reitano
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
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Principles of Actuarial Science
models. Such deterministic models may, however, be dynamic in nature, reflecting as- sumptions about the ... reduction in process or even parameter risk. Dynamic Structures of Financial Security Systems I contend ...- Authors: Robert P Clancy, Arnold Dicke, Warren Luckner, Robert A Miller, Harry H Panjer, Donald M Peterson, BRADLEY WAYNE BERGQUIST, Charles Barry H. Watson
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices
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Internal Rate of Return as an Evaluator of Tax-Planning Strategies
Internal Rate of Return as an Evaluator of Tax-Planning Strategies This paper develops ... AND TLrrrLE, D. Managing lnvestment Portfolios-A Dynamic Process. Charlottesville, Va.: Institute of Chartered ...- Authors: Kenneth LaSorella, Edward Robbins
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
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C-3 Task Force Report - Modeling The C-3 Risk
The investment strategy can be either dynamic or fixed. In dynamic strategies, investment and liquidation ... for interest-sensitive products are examples of dynamic strategies. G. Defining Interest Scenarios One ...- Authors: Peter B Deakins, Stanley B Tulin
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
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Intervention Effects Among a Collection of Risks
the relationship among the parameters of the dynamic equations are made ex- plicit, as are the actuarial ... a collection of risks can be calculated under dynamic situations by determining the value of f` over ...- Authors: H Tolley, Kenneth G Manton
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
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Information Theoretic Approach to Actuarial Science: A Unification and Extension of Relevant Theory and Applications
Information Theoretic Approach to Actuarial Science: A Unification and Extension of Relevant Theory ... theory or the Kolmogorov-Ornstein theorem for dynamic flows. Incidentally, the Boltzmann H-Theorem is ...- Authors: Bradley P Carlin, Beda Chan, Thomas Herzog, William L Roach, Elias Shiu, Patrick L Brockett, Josh Babier, Wojciech Szatzschneider, E S Rosenbloom
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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An Excess Spread Approach to Nonparticipating Insurance Products
rate. By using the excess spread approach, more dynamic strategies can also be tested; one is shown in ... plus two-thirds of the previous credited rate Dynamic Resetting Strategy Reset to: the new money rate ...- Authors: Mark Griffin
- Date: Oct 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management
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The Financial Implications of AIDS for Life Insurance Companies in the United States
The Financial Implications of AIDS for Life Insurance Companies in the United States The main ... Rather, the Task Force recommends that more dynamic methods of recognizing the cost of AIDS be adopted ...- Authors: Robert Beal, David J Christianson, Harold J Deutscher, Ardian Gill, William C Koenig, Paul E Sarnoff, Thomas Reese
- Date: Oct 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews This paper presents reviews of: 'Life Insurance' 11th Edition by ... valuation laws includes a good explanation of the dynamic valuation law adopted in the 1980s. Chapter 21 ...- Authors: Edward Cowman, William B Frye, Sheila I Kelley, J Bruce MacDonald, Ernest J Moorhead, Anthony B Richter, George Y Cherlin
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Source-of-Earnings Analysis under FAS 97 Universal Life Accounting
Method 2 calculation of total expected profit is dynamic; that is, it adjusts for the difference in actual ... approach, because the latter often uses either the dynamic worksheet method or the factor method to amortize ...- Authors: Joseph H Tan
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
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The Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986
The Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 The Federal Employees' Retirement ... file annual disclosure reports with GAO using dynamic methods, i.e., actuarial assumptions reflecting ...- Authors: Richard Schreitmueller
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Plan design; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans
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Amortizing Acquisition Expenses in Proportion to Premium Revenues
identifies some shortcomings of the traditional dynamic method and other published meth- ods. The paper ... explores the advantages and disadvantages of various dynamic adjustment methods under different test situations ...- Authors: Mark Evans
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
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Source of Earnings Analysis for Flexible Premium and Interest-Sensitive Life and Annuity Products
interest-sensitive life and annuity products, because of the dynamic nature of the nontraditional products. This paper ... Sys- tem" (TSA XXIII (1971):391). However, the dynamic aspects of flexible premium and interest-sensitive ...- Authors: Robert Stein, Joseph H Tan
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Annuities>Fixed annuities; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Life Insurance>Universal life
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Report of the Task Force on Mutual Life Insurance Company Conversion
courses of action might be. The reason is that in a dynamic world there are interrelationships among the factors ... lifetime of the model company. The model uses a dynamic dividend-setting process which incorporates the ...- Authors: Michael H Berkowitz, Michael Cowell, John H Elken, Charles Greeley, Curtis E Huntington, Robin B Leckie, Robert D Lowden, Application Administrator, James Murphy, Henry Ramsey, Lewis P Roth, Robert Shapiro, Walter Shur, Edward J Slaby, James A Tilley, James L Wertheimer, Harry D. Garber, steve smith
- Date: Oct 1987
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Public Policy
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Terminal Funding
Terminal Funding This paper is a practical guide to the terminal funding annuity product. Actuarial ... ANALYS1S The minimum statutory reserves under the dynamic valuation law are based upon Moody's Corporate ...- Authors: Victor Modugno
- Date: Oct 1986
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Annuities>Group plans - Annuities; Pensions & Retirement
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Strategic Management of Life Insurance Company Surplus
Strategic Management of Life Insurance Company Surplus This paper outlines a framework for managing ... The interest rate change component is based on dynamic factors. For each product line, the applicable ...- Authors: Richard Kischuk
- Date: Oct 1986
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments
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Measuring the Interest Rate Risk
asset values do; net worth is determined by the dynamic interplay of these changes. For instance, surplus ... sitive cash flows, duration matching amounts to a dynamic trading strategy for synthetic option replication ...- Authors: Paul Milgrom
- Date: Oct 1985
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Options on Bonds and Applications to Product Pricing
Options on Bonds and Applications to Product Pricing This paper presents a theoretical ... assumption, usually chosen to be static rather than dynamic, and almost never chosen to optimize risk control ...- Authors: Robert P Clancy
- Date: Oct 1985
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Select and Ultimate Financial Assumptions in Pension Plan Valuations: An Analysis of the Issues
Select and Ultimate Financial Assumptions in Pension Plan Valuations: An Analysis of the Issues ... alter these rates by calendar year despite the dynamic nature of the financial assumptions. While this ...- Authors: Vincent Amoroso, Edward W Brown, Yuan Chang, Robert P Ford, Jeff Furnish, Michael J Gulotta, John J Haley, Application Administrator, Michael Krosky, Martin A Pepper, Patricia Conger, Neela Ranade, A Frederick Rohlfs, William E Schroeder, T Thomas Simester, Susan M Smith, Ailey Bailin, Richard L. Helms
- Date: Oct 1985
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
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Interest Rate Futures: An Alternative to Traditional Immunization in the Financial Management of Guaranteed Investment Contracts
Interest Rate Futures: An Alternative to Traditional Immunization in the Financial Management of ... assumptions made in traditional immunization. Dynamic interest rates could be incorporated to verify ...- Authors: Allan M Fen
- Date: Oct 1985
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Required Surplus for the Insurance Risk for Certain Lines of Group Insurance
relationship is obvious or neces- sary. Moreover, in a dynamic environment, surplus requirements often will increase ... time. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce dynamic elements into the discussion. We shall identify ...- Authors: John K Ahrens, Allan Brender, James Ramenda
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Group plans - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Guaranteed Investment Contract 'GIC'
valuation law following the 1980 NAIC model for a dynamic valuation law (only Virginia, Alaska, and the ... GIC statutory reserve requirements (per the 1980 dynamic valuation law) may not be adequate. For a multiple ...- Authors: John D Stiefel
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Pension investments & asset liability management
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Population Waves and Fertility Fluctuations: Social Security Implications
recast . Human fe r t i l i ty responds in a dynamic i f complex manner to changes in the env i ronment ... 15, pp. 397-432. Prauenthal, J.C. (1975), "A Dynamic Model for Human Population Growth," Theoretical ...- Authors: Phelim Boyle, Ruth Freedman
- Date: Jan 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House; Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Demography
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Universal Life and Indeterminate Premium Products and Policyholder Dividends
mium method of calculating reserves, but the dynamic interest method makes sense only under the retrospective ... variously called the "triangular method," the "dynamic segment method," or the "Commissioner's Annuity ...- Authors: Ted E Becker, Stephen D Bickel, Robert J Callahan, Mark Anthony Hug, Thomas G Kabele, Stephen B Moses, John Palmer, Claude Thau, John C Winter
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting; Public Policy; Public Policy
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Distribution of Aggregate Claims in the Individual Risk Theory Model
Distribution of Aggregate Claims in the Individual Risk Theory Model In this paper an algorithm ... one's short-term perspective into a long-range dynamic modelmthat is, a theory of surplus. Of course ...- Authors: Peter Kornya
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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A Better Financing Approach for Social Security
high a price in political inflexibility. In a dynamic society, perhaps it is unrealistic and undesirable ... probably going to happen again and again, since dynamic systems do not 132 SOCIAL SECURITY FINANCING ...- Authors: Francisco Bayo, Hobson Carroll, Milton P Glanz, James C Hickman, Steven F McKay, Robert J Myers, Richard M Rasiej, Kenneth Steiner, Howard Young, A M Niessen
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Social Security
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The Generalized Ordinary Dividend Formula under TEFRA
The Generalized Ordinary Dividend Formula under TEFRA This paper extends the author's ... cases; then, k would become zero. In Section V. a dynamic or floating definition of B .~, is given, which ...- Authors: Donald D Cody
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance
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Segmentation of Insurance Company General Accounts
Segmentation of Insurance Company General Accounts This paper describes a major refinement ... major lines of business. Optimal response to the dynamic economic and financial markets in which we operate ...- Authors: James A Attwood, Carl R Ohman
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Development of the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table
Development of the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table This paper describes the analysis made ... December of 1979. A Standard Valuation law based on dynamic interest rates had been introduced which would ...- Authors: Robert M Chmely
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
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A Strategic Premise for Actuarial Education
socio-demographic environment. The future will be far more dynamic and will require a flexible approach to both the ... how they are applied, with recognition of the dynamic nature of these fundamental concepts in that they ...- Authors: Michael Cowell
- Date: Oct 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Indexing of Federal Retirement Systems for Inflation
entry-age-normal cost funding method that recognizes dynamic assumptions. Prior to 1935, the Navy had a pension ... recommended that the entire system be placed on a dynamic funding basis and this recommen- dation has been ...- Authors: Edwin Hustead, Toni Hustead
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans
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Indexing Pensions - Protecting Postretirement Purchasing Power
such as 3 percent, for which a shift is made to dynamic assumptions incorporating inflation of, say, 5 ... implied that pension plan contributions in a dynamic economy are the same for an indexed as for a nonindexed ...- Authors: Gerald Richmond, Mark L Rosen
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans
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An Expanded Financial Structure for Ordinary Dividends
ordinary lines. 7. The structure should have a dynamic capability of showing how changes in the future ... minimum valuation reserve bases incorporating dynamic interest rates on guaranteed interest contracts ...- Authors: Donald D Cody
- Date: Oct 1981
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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The Funding of Negotiated Pension Plans
affect the size of the active work force? A dynamic simulation model that mimics the typical negotiated ... plans. The ana- lytical technique used involves a dynamic model that simulates the behavior of each element ...- Authors: Robert C Kryvicky
- Date: Oct 1981
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Multi-employer plans
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A Critical Analysis of the Assumptions in the 1980 Social Security Trustees' Reports
in the trustees' reports were computed using dynamic economic assumptions with regard to benefit increases ... situation prevailing at the time--and so the use of dynamic projected economic assumptions was not appropriate ...- Authors: Roland E King, Clifford Keith Powell
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Social Security
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Measures of Actuarial Status for Social Security: Retrospect and Prospect
uncertainties as to future hospital practices." Second, dynamic economic assumptions were made with respect to ... beyond those scheduled in present law. For OASDI, dynamic economic assumptions would have tended to produce ...- Authors: Dwight K Bartlett
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Social Security
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Insurance Company Growth
Insurance Company Growth This paper defines a concept of equivalence for profit standards. The ... are its limited resources but also what are the dynamic relationships among its key re- sources. Most ...- Authors: Dale Hagstrom
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Economics; Finance & Investments
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The Dynamics of Pension Funding: Contribution Theory
The Dynamics of Pension Funding: Contribution Theory In this paper, a general model for a pension ... 1979, Vol. 31. Defined benefit plans=DB plans;Dynamic simulation models;Inflation;Pension valuation; ...- Authors: Newton L Bowers, James C Hickman, Cecil J Nesbitt
- Date: Oct 1979
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Funding
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Nonparticipating Adjustable Individual Life Policies
Nonparticipating Adjustable Individual Life Policies This paper considers in more detail ... participating and nonpar- ticipating insurance is more dynamic than the author suggests; over the last twenty ...- Authors: Solomon Goldfinger, Spencer Koppel, Thomas C Powell
- Date: Oct 1979
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
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Book Reviews and Notices
the system to evolve as it did. An underlying dynamic was what she terms "the electoral connection," ... under the plan, using dynamic assumptions and a variety of funding methods. The dynamic assumptions were ...- Authors: E Allen Arnold, Ronald L Haneberg, Carlton Harker, Robert O Martinelli, Walter Shur, Jeanne Cullinan Ray
- Date: Oct 1979
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Pensions & Retirement; Social Insurance>Survivor benefits
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Book Reviews and Notices
Book Reviews and Notices This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House ... in our very complex economy there are too many dynamic elements and too much shifting among them for ...- Authors: Theodossios Athanassiades, Preston C Bassett, Raymond W Bender, Vincent W Donnelly, Charles T P Galloway, Richard (Dick) L London, Walter N Miller, Robert J Myers, Charles A Siegfried, Allan B. Roby
- Date: Oct 1978
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Social Insurance>Social Security
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GAAP Acquisition Expense Amortization Methodology
GAAP Acquisition Expense Amortization Methodology This paper discusses three methods for ... static approach with prescheduled amortization, a dynamic technique called the expense reserve factor method ...- Authors: Alan Goldberg, Thomas G Kabele, Lester Moskowitz, Claude Y Paquin, Joe B Pharr, Donald R Sondergeld
- Date: Oct 1978
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Philosophic Issue in Dividend Distribution
somewhat parallel line of reasoning rests on the dynamic nature of a corporate enterprise. A vigorous company ... policy- holders benefit from participating in a dynamic, growing company, and a levy to finance sound ...- Authors: Robert C Winters
- Date: Oct 1978
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Whole life
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Characteristics and Operation of Projection Valuation Methods for Pension Plan Funding
Characteristics and Operation of Projection Valuation Methods for Pension Plan Funding A new ... 1977, Vol. 29. Defined benefit plans=DB plans;Dynamic simulation models;Pension valuation; 2380 10/1/1977 ...- Authors: Robert J Schnitzer
- Date: Oct 1977
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
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Book Reviews and Notices
Book Reviews and Notices This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial ... $17.50. As might be expected in a business as dynamic as group insurance, few text- books have been ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1977
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Health & Disability>Disability insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Funding; Social Insurance>Social Security
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The Unresolved OASDI Decoupling Issue
1972 amendments, actuarial cost estimates on a dynamic basis s were pointing up the sensitivity of these ... changes in prices and earnings are said to be "dynamic." 434 THE IYNRESOLVED OASDI DECOUPLING ISSUE ...- Authors: Barnet N Berin, Ernest J Moorhead, Robert J Myers, Cecil J Nesbitt, Charles L. Trowbridge
- Date: Oct 1977
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Social Security
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Book Reviews and Notices
in the predecessor book--an indication of the dynamic state of social security now as compared with ... mis- understanding, is likely to play a more dynamic role in determining the shape of the 342 BOOK ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Non-forfeiture benefits; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans; Social Insurance>Social Security
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Social Security Integration
Social Security Integration This paper offers a mathematical discussion of integrating ... clarifying the perplexing problem of how to integrate dynamic social security benefits with pension plan benefits ...- Authors: Arthur W Anderson, Barnet N Berin, Cecil J Nesbitt
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Public Policy; Social Insurance>Social Security
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The Education of the Actuary in the Future
The Education of the Actuary in the Future Presentation of proposals that are designed to further ... govern- ment programs, expense-handling in a dynamic economy, political aspects of the insurance business ...- Authors: Cecil Bykerk, Michael Cowell, Michael Frank, Cecil J Nesbitt, Peter W Plumley, Anna M Rappaport, Donald R Sondergeld, Forrest Allen Spooner, Aaron Tenenbein
- Date: Oct 1975
- 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; Professional Values>Public interest representation
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Academic partnerships; Actuarial Profession>Qualifications; Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Book Reviews and Notices
Book Reviews and Notices This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications. ... A. Retting and O. Nichols, Some Aspects of the Dynamic Projection of Benefits under the 1973 Social Security ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1975
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Pensions & Retirement
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Recursive Definitions of Actuarial Functions
of the recursive approach is that it permits a "dynamic" definition of the problem. One can proceed from ... Donald. While this problem does not have the "dynamic" 56 RECURSIVE DEFINITIONS OF ACTUARIAL FUNCTIONS ...- Authors: Stephen G Kellison, Quintin J Maltby, Lester R McCracken, Thomas P Tierney, Application Administrator, Edward J Seligman, Thomas N E Greville
- Date: Jan 1975
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Index to Volume XXVI
D719. From Actuarius to Actuary: The Growth of a Dynamic Professian in Canada and the United States, XXVI ... on: From Actuarius to Actuary: The Growth of a Dynamic Profession in Canada and the United States, XXVI ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1974
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession
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On Calculating Delta-Ized Reserves - Actuarial Note
On Calculating Delta-Ized Reserves - Actuarial Note The actuarial profession is faced with ... flexible manner. Discount rates=Interest rates;Dynamic simulation models;Monte Carlo simulation;Statistical ...- Authors: William A Bailey, Cecil J Nesbitt, David G Halmstad
- Date: Oct 1974
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
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Social Security Amendments - 1962-72
actuarial view of the system from "static" to "dynamic," with changes assumed to occur in accordance ... evident that the Advisory Council was recommending dynamic assumptions even if the automatic provisions were ...- Authors: Charles L. Trowbridge
- Date: Oct 1973
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Medicare; Social Insurance>Social Security
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Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting This paper outlines a method of parametric modeling ... intervals. The process that we have outlined is a dynamic process. That is, steps 3, 4, and 5 may be repeated ...- Authors: James C Hickman, Robert B Miller, Frank Reynolds, Richard W Ziock
- Date: Oct 1973
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis
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A New Collective Risk Model
A New Collective Risk Model In this paper, a mathematical model is constructed to study the deviations ... readers follows Discount rates=Interest rates;Dynamic simulation models;Inflation;Risk measurement;Risk ...- Authors: John A Beekman, Ethan Stroh, Richard W Ziock
- Date: Oct 1973
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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Net Cost Comparison of Dissimilar Life Insurance Contracts: The Standard Mortality Cost Method
Net Cost Comparison of Dissimilar Life Insurance Contracts: The Standard Mortality Cost Method This ... most dramatically that the "best buy" is a dynamic function of the value of near-riskless money to ...- Authors: J Stanley Hill
- Date: Nov 1971
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance
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On the Credibility of Group Insurance Claim Experience
On the Credibility of Group Insurance Claim Experience This paper deals with credibility as applied ... recent claim data, is being developed. In the dynamic economy in which we operate, the re- wards for ...- Authors: Myron Henry Margolin
- Date: Nov 1971
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Health & Disability
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Computer Models and Simulation
particular interest. In long-range planning, a dynamic model of a sys- tem that can be manipulated on ... mathematical model describing the be- havior of a dynamic multiprocess firm operating under uncertainty, ...- Authors: Michael C Altschuler, Thomas P Bowles, Russell M Collins, John H Cook, Abraham Hazelcorn, Anthony J Houghton, Burton Jay, James Lee Lewis, Joseph P McAllister, Cecil J Nesbitt, William F Sutton, Robin B Welch, Eli A Zubay, Owen A. Reed, Harry D. Garber, Charles L. Trowbridge, David G Halmstad, John W Lincoln
- Date: Apr 1969
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications
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Equity-Oriented Products
Equity-Oriented Products This is a discussion about equity-oriented product and mutual fund operations. ... the Equitable. MR. WILDE: Our product is so dynamic that we expect to do more than 90 per cent in ...- Authors: William C Brown, John J Byrne, Ardian Gill, Donald S Grubbs, Harold G Ingraham, John T Longmoore, John Macarchuk, G Mitchell, John M Sutherland, Harry Walker, Charles B Baughman, Peter R Wilde, Leslie A Cannon, Robert N Powell
- Date: Apr 1969
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities
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Social Security Amendments in 1966-67
conservative, this cost estimate is based on dynamic assumptions as to earnings levels and hospital ... the per diem coinsurance provisions are on a dynamic basis, adjusted auto- matically to the average ...- Authors: Robert J Myers
- Date: May 1968
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance
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Cost of Vesting in Pensions
Cost of Vesting in Pensions This paper presents a theoretical treatment of the determination ... Furthermore, changes in turnover patterns may be so dynamic as to make the cost of vesting one of the mo~t ...- Authors: William F Marples
- Date: Oct 1966
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
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Digest of Discussion of Subjects of General Interest
responsibility for lack of which the future in a dynamic economy might pass a company by. Predictably, the ... planning tool is now widely con- sidered to be a dynamic model of a system that can be manipulated on a ...- Authors: John C Angle, William H Breeze, J Stanley Hill, Richard H Hoffman, John D Hogan, John W Paddon, Paul E Singer
- Date: Jun 1966
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Certain Actuarial Considerations in Determining Life Insurance Company Equity Values - Actuarial Note
Certain Actuarial Considerations in Determining Life Insurance Company Equity Values - Actuarial ... in part to bridge the gap between static and dynamic values or between adjusted book and market values ...- Authors: Thomas P Bowles, Lloyd S Coughtry
- Date: Oct 1965
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Economic value
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Mortality of Smokers and Nonsmokers
Mortality of Smokers and Nonsmokers This is a panel discussion on the mortality of smokers ... the total ecological picture. He tries to see a dynamic interaction between the host, the agent or agents ...- Authors: William J November, E Cuyler Hammond, Robert C Hockett, W Harding Le Riche
- Date: Jan 1964
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality