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  • The Cost of Recent Additional Mortality under Group Conversions
    The Cost of Recent Additional Mortality under Group Conversions Evaluation of the excess mortality element of the Group Conversion charge. Followed by several discussion papers submitted ...

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    • Authors: Russell M Collins, Rea B Hayes, Paul H Jackson, Julia Augusta Oldenkamp, Frederick S Townsend, Julius Vogel, Edward A. Lew, Louis Levinson, Garnett E Cannon, George C Campbell, W Rulon Williamson, Milton J. Wood, Guy W. Pickering, Fred H Holsten
    • Date: Oct 1962
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Statistical Adjustment of Mortality Tables to Reflect Known Information
    Statistical Adjustment of Mortality Tables to Reflect Known Information This paper presents a statistical methodology based upon information theory, for adjusting mortality tables to obtain ...

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    • Authors: Samuel Cox, Allan C Weaver, Patrick L Brockett
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • A Futurist's Technique in Pricing
    A Futurist's Technique in Pricing In our rapidly changing world, it is becoming hopeless to try to arrive at a satisfying description of future conditions, even in the short run. Yet prices ...

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    • Authors: Claude Thau
    • Date: Dec 1980
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Why Not Random Interest?
    Why Not Random Interest? This article poses the question, why doesn't the teaching of life contingencies start with the premise that the rate of investment income is a random process in a ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman
    • Date: Feb 1985
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances
    Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances Article Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances by Beard in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2 Catastrophic risk;Health ...

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    • Authors: Robert E Beard
    • Date: Feb 1979
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Health & Disability>Health risks; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Non-forfeiture benefits; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Fuzzy Logic
    Fuzzy Logic From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 The panelists cover: 1 The basic concepts underlying fuzzy logic, 2 Current ...

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    • Authors: Timothy Swankey, Richard A Derrig, Fred A Watkins
    • Date: May 2000
    • 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
  • Pricing Practices For Joint Last Survivor Insurance
    Pricing Practices For Joint Last Survivor Insurance Using data from a large insurance company, we construct a parametric model for the joint survival function based on a Hougaard copula function.

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    • Authors: Heekyung Youn, Arkady Shemyakin
    • Date: Jan 2001
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Actuarial Application of the Monte Carlo Technique
    Actuarial Application of the Monte Carlo Technique The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of the Monte Carlo technique to a practical situation in a company, group term rate ...

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    • Authors: Russell M Collins, James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, Nathan F Jones, Robert C Tookey
    • Date: Oct 1962
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Experience-Rating Group Life Insurance
    Experience-Rating Group Life Insurance This paper explores the principles upon which experience-rated group insurance currently is based and discusses the question of whether or not these ...

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    • Authors: John C Angle, William A Bailey, Application Administrator, Theodore W Garrison, Hans U Gerber, Donald A Jones, Edward J Porto, William J Schreiner, Myron Henry Margolin, James E Jeffrey
    • Date: Oct 1974
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Group plans - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Technology and the Actuarial Pricing Model - What Comes Next?
    Technology and the Actuarial Pricing Model - What Comes Next? Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session offers a retrospective and prospective look at the development of actuarial ...

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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