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  • Possible Values vs. Expected Values
    Possible Values vs. Expected Values An increasing need exists for the actuary to provide ... description of the new life contingencies textbook's stochastic approach and application to some practical ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Application Administrator, R Stephen Radcliffe, Irwin T Vanderhoof, John C Wooddy
    • Date: Oct 1981
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Choice and Justification of an Interest Rate
    assumptions than to those arrived at by judgment. S. A scientific approach will aid in isolating reasons ... purposes of adjusted earnings. Gross Premiums In Table 1 we detail a series of specimen gross annual premium ...

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    • Authors: Claude Y Paquin, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Dale R Gustafson
    • Date: Oct 1973
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Values and Risks of Complex Financial Instruments: Monte Carlo and Low-Discrepancy Points
    Carlo simulation of some annuity products, for example, processes the annuity product through a model ... are a number of very refined statistical tests, the s-dimensional Kolmogorov tests are similar to what you ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Graham Lord, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Leonard H Wissner, Anargyros Papageorgiou
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
  • Digest of Smaller Company Forum
    have wasted money on marginal schemes. MR. JOHN S. MOYSE: My experience has been that persistency ele- ... revised at the time of adoption of the 1958 CSO Mortality Table? MRS. ANNA MARIA RAPPAPORT: Standard Security ...

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    • Authors: William L Barber, Ralph E Edwards, Melvin L Gold, J Stanley Hill, George E Immerwahr, Robert H Jordan, Morton J Kent, John S Moyse, Anna M Rappaport, Courtland C Smith, W Tris Stevens, Ralph G Swail, Robert C Tookey, Irwin T Vanderhoof, James G Bruce, Reuben I Jacobson
    • Date: Oct 1963
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Investment Strategies
    achieve specific tax effects. An example in the U.S. would be purchase of tax-free municipal bonds, and ... deeply embedded optional features, especially in the U.S. Buy and hold works somewhat better for spread products ...

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    • Authors: Kenneth W Stewart, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Robert Stricker
    • Date: Oct 1988
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
  • Actuaries And Assets
    actuaries spend time and money on well justified mortality studies (judging the perfor- mance of our underwriters) ... compila- tion of data showing the growth of major U.S. legal reserve life insur- ance companies in various ...

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    • Authors: Irwin T Vanderhoof
    • Date: Jun 1975
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement>Pension investments & asset liability management
  • Technology and the Actuarial Pricing Model - What Comes Next?
    is much higher than the single premium deferred annuity (SPDA) liability in the case where interest rates ... the annuity business, you have great entrepreneurial opportunities to seek out all other annuity holders ...

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    • Authors: Shane A Chalke, Thomas W Reese, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Douglas A George, Mark C Abbott
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities
    rates he would use, for example, on mortality. Because mortality is basically a diversifiable risk, you ... risk there. Maybe if we have a recession, the mortality might go up slightly. Some small margin gets ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Zain Mohey-Deen, Robert C Wilkins
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]