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  • Notes on Bayesian Graduation
    insurance premiums requires estimates of a set of mortality, interest, and expense parameters. In fixing ... science in the estimation of mortality parameters. Observed mortality probabilities often exhibit irregularities ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, Thomas G Kabele, Stuart Klugman, Steven F McKay, Robert B Miller, Harwood Rosser
    • Date: Oct 1977
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods
  • Apportionable Basis for Net Premiums and Reserves
    Apportionable Basis for Net Premiums and Reserves This is the discussion of the paper by J. Alan ... functions. A new function, the apportionable annuity due, is defined and derived and formulas for net ...

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    • Authors: John H Cook, Allan Johnson, J Alan Lauer, John A Mereu, Cecil J Nesbitt, William A. White, Harwood Rosser, B George Isen
    • Date: Jun 1967
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Claims - Life Insurance
  • A Linear Programming Approach to Graduation
    graduation [9]. In that method, graduated values u,, a" = 1, 2, . . . , n, are sought corresponding ... values u'-' and nonnegative weightsw, that minimize the quantity F -]- OS, where F = Y~"x.1 w,(u," -- ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Stuart Klugman, Robert B Miller, Donald R Schuette, Harwood Rosser, Thomas N E Greville
    • Date: Oct 1978
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • A Present Value Approach to Profit Margins and Dividends
    practical, step-by-step, numerical example. 187 TABLE 1 DETERMINATION OF PROFIT I~IARGINS OR ~IAXIMUM ... 698•72 679•08 659.45 16,825.98 16,825.98 MORTALITY RATE g~tzl+~l .00115 .001~t5 •00169 .00210 ...

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    • Authors: Harwood Rosser
    • Date: May 1951
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • On The Derivation of Discrete Interpolation Formulas
    of not as an alge- braic expression, but as a table of linear compound coefficients such as have appeared ... tration* we may take the coefficients given in Table 1, which are those subdividing into five parts ...

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    • Authors: Harwood Rosser, Thomas N E Greville, Hubert Vaughan, Aubrey White
    • Date: Nov 1949
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies
  • Gross Premium Calculations and Profit Measurement for Non-Participating Insurance
    low net cost, tasting the lotus of improving mortality, weighing the promise of increased new business ... lish risk classes for the purpose of predicting mortality rates, interest rates, expense rates, withdrawal ...

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    • Authors: Hillary J Fisher, Leon D Forbes, Robert Merritt, LaLander S Norman, Stuart A Robertson, Harry M Sarason, James E Hoskins, James C H Anderson, Edward A Green, Harwood Rosser, E Forrest Estes
    • Date: Jun 1959
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Discussion - A Present Value Approach to Profit Margins and Dividends
    value method has the further advantage that if mortality and lapse rates are varied only for large groups ... ~P+E D - ½Dr) -- At d 1 + i ql~q+t-a Dt CVt+E s - At At 1+i 1+i W[~l+t-1 + A t-1 -- 1 +----i ...

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    • Authors: Robert J Johansen, James Ross Gray, Robert L Bergstresser, Harwood Rosser, B Franklin Blair, Edward A. Rieder, Kermit Lang
    • Date: Sep 1951
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Whole life
  • Digest of Smaller Company Forum
    Digest of Smaller Company Forum This discussion at the 1966 Washington Regional Meeting, ... reinsurance;Marketing and distribution;Mortality rates=Mortality tables=Death rates ;Premiums;Socioeconomic ...

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    • Authors: Dwight K Bartlett, Bob J Bolin, John M Bragg, David T Bunin, Ralph E Edwards, Lawrence J Finnegan, Charles T P Galloway, Curtis D Greene, Abraham Hazelcorn, Clayton L Jackson, George A MacLean, John S Moyse, William Simpson, Courtland C Smith, Mel Stein, L Jefferson Stulce, Frederick S Townsend, Paul D Yeary, Charles F B Richardson, Franklin B Dana, Francis X Cody, Harwood Rosser, B Franklin Blair, Robert C Bailey, Schuyler W Tompson, Maurice H LeVita, Patrick L Humphrey
    • Date: Apr 1966
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Adjusted Earnings
    Adjusted Earnings This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings ... Accepted Accounting Principles=GAAP;Life reserves;Mortality assumption;Persistency;Statutory accounting;T ...

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    • Authors: H J Boothroyd, Gary Corbett, Ralph H Goebel, Melvin L Gold, Gilbert W Hart, Abraham Hazelcorn, William C Hsiao, Ronald A Karp, Howard H Kayton, Paul H Knies, Frederick J Knox, Crawford E Laing, Donald J Leapman, Richard H Morse, John S Moyse, Alan Richards, Edward Robbins, Stuart A Robertson, G Philip Streatfeild, Frederick S Townsend, Charles Connolly, William J November, Herbert L Feay, William K. Nicol, Alfred L Buckman, Richard M Sellers, Allen L. Mayerson, Harwood Rosser, George D. Chester, Bernard Fenster
    • Date: Apr 1968
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Valuation Problems
    Valuation Problems This session at a 1962 SOA Regional Meeting is a discussion about ... became a closed file when we went to the '58 CSO table. The file is kept inactive until the quarterly statement ...

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    • Authors: Lee H Kemper, John M Loftis, Lawrence C Patz, Harwood Rosser, James G Bruce
    • Date: May 1962
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance