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Address of the President, David M. Holland -The Once & Future Actuary
Address of the President, David M. Holland -The Once & Future Actuary This is a ... 1974. From Actuarius to Actuary: The Growth of a Dynamic Profession in Canada and the United States. Chicago ...- Authors: David Holland
- Date: Jan 1997
- Competency: Leadership>Change management
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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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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About the Authors
About the Authors This section contains biographies for authors with articles featured in the Transactions ... Liabilities" (1995), and co-editing the SOA's Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Handbook (1995).- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession
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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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Contents of 1995-96 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience
Contents of 1995-96 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience Table of Contents for 1995-96 ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dynamic Solvency Testing: Boundaries of Risk Definition ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data
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Address of the President, Sam Gutterman - The Redesign of the Actuary
Address of the President, Sam Gutterman - The Redesign of the Actuary This is a presidential ... This realization will result in the use of more dynamic models and follow what the Australian actuaries ...- Authors: Sam Gutterman
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: Leadership>Change management
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Transactions of Society of Actuaries - Foreward to 1995-96 Reports
Transactions of Society of Actuaries - Foreward to 1995-96 Reports This is the Foreward to ... Actuaries research activities are also included: “Dynamic Solvency Testing: Boundaries of Risk Definition ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession
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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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Option Pricing by Esscher Transforms
Computation 32 (1978): 277-79. 32. DUFFLE, D. Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory. Princeton: Princeton University ... LusKir~, D.L. ED. Por(folio Insurance: A Guide to Dynamic Hedging. New York: Wiley, 1988. 56. MADAN, D ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
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A One-Factor Interest Rate Model and the Valuation of Loans with Prepayment Provisions
A One-Factor Interest Rate Model and the Valuation of Loans with Prepayment Provisions This paper ... prepayment option is to use an im- munization or dynamic hedging approach. Hedge instruments are chosen ...- Authors: Michael Sherris
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Economic value
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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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Contents of 1993-94 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience
. . . . . . . . 319 The Potential Role of Dynamic Solvency Testing in Preventing Insolvencies of ... l ingham ... 343 Research Report on Selected Dynamic Solvency Testing Topics. Allan Brender and Donna ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data
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1993-94 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience - Introduction
are also included: o "~T.he Potential Role of Dynamic Solvency Testing in Preventing insol- vencies ... S. Fillingham o "Research Report on Selected Dynamic Solvency Testing Topics," by Allan Brender and ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data
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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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Address of the President, Robert H. Hoskins - The State of the Society
Address of the President, Robert H. Hoskins - The State of the Society This is a presidential ... and how they are applied with recognition of the dynamic nature of these fundamental concepts in that they ...- Authors: Robert H Hoskins
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: Leadership>Professional network leverage
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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The Process of Premium Formulation
The Process of Premium Formulation In this paper the author discusses pricing insurance products ... balanced. Premium formulation is necessarily a dynamic process. Experience must be monitored continuously ...- Authors: Harry Ploss, Robert Shapiro
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
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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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OASDI Earnings Test
OASDI Earnings Test The author analyzes the arguments for and against a Social Security earnings ... paid. Because our social and economic system is dynamic, these areas should be reviewed periodically even ...- Authors: James L Cowen, Ralph E Edwards, Thomas J Hummel, Warren Luckner, Robert J Myers
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Practice expertise
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Social Insurance>Social Security
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Report of The Task Force on Smoker/Nonsmoker Mortality
Report of The Task Force on Smoker/Nonsmoker Mortality Covers experience from 1973 - 1978 ... Commissioners (NAIC) Technical Advisory Committee on Dynamic Interest and Related Matters. That Committee was ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1982
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Claims - Life Insurance
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Address of the President, Robin B. Leckie - Actuarial Soundness
Address of the President, Robin B. Leckie - Actuarial Soundness This is the presidential address ... actuaries manage in the future. At the same time, dynamic changes are literally taking place in valuation ...- Authors: Robin B Leckie
- Date: Oct 1981
- Competency: Professional Values
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession
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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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Report of the Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation Derivation of the 1983 Table a
Report of the Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation Derivation ... Adop- tion by the states of the concept of dynamic interest rates for valuation may further erode ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Annuities>Group plans - Annuities; Annuities>Individual annuities; Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
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Report of the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Table for Valuation
issues of $1 billion on both a dynamic and static basis. The dynamic basis assumed a 10 percent increase ... various tables tested under both the static and dynamic bases. Exhibit 11 compares the results for each ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
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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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Minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries
Minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries This section contains the business ... assisted by Mr. Joseph Fafian, Jr. Workshop 9A, "Dynamic Pension Plan Models," was moderated by Mr. Stephen ...- Authors: J Jacques Deschenes
- Date: Oct 1977
- Competency: Professional Values
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations
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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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Introduction to the Dynamics of Pension Funding
principles applicable to pension funding under dynamic conditions of population growth, inflation, and ... Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28. Assumptions;Dynamic simulation models;Inflation; 2290 10/1/1976 12:00:00 ...- Authors: Newton L Bowers, James C Hickman, Cecil J Nesbitt
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Funding
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Minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries
Minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries This section contains the business ... assembly on the subject of "The Outlook for a Dynamic Economy." Following the presentation, President ...- Authors: J Jacques Deschenes
- Date: Oct 1976
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations