Description: Techniques that have gained some traction in general (property/casualty) insurance will be highlighted with a particular focus on the linear mixed model. This model adds random effects to the more commonly seen fixed effects (for example, as used in GLMs).

Description: A resource for actuarial professionals, providing a systematic approach to the application of actuarial theory to real world problems. Provides insight into how to manage financial risk within dynamic economic and social systems. It is also a required text for use in the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice course.

Description: A resource for actuarial professionals, providing a systematic approach to the application of actuarial theory to real world problems. Provides insight into how to manage financial risk within dynamic economic and social systems. It is also a required text for use in the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice course.

Description: Formal report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force to the Board of Directors at its June 2005 meeting. This document contains general objectives of the task force, membership and structure information, and the group's strategic plan for implementing an accreditation program for actuarial science academic programs.

Description: In this paper the ad-hoc Bayesian derivation of the Whittaker method is replaced with a formal Bayesian specification, and then it is shown that with this specification it is possible to complete the graduation without making an arbitrary selection of the smoothing parameter. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992, VOL. 1.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session focused on three projects funded by the Actuarial Education and Research Fund: risk models, operations research applications for actuaries and probability modeling of losses.