Description: This article is the first installment of a three-part series and is focused on providing an overview of LTC modeling approaches and considerations.

Description: This article is the second installment of a three-part series and is focused on providing an overview of LTC modeling approaches and considerations.

Description: The April 2016 Issue of The Modeling Platform

Description: We define what we believe a model validation should entail and the value proposition that it offers.

Description: A summary of Modeling Section-sponsored sessions at the 2016 Life/Annuity Symposium, covering model risk management, model governance, and model efficiency.

Description: The authors explore a new approach to the premium persistency assumption in universal life products.

Description: While Model Efficiency and Model Governance may seem like completely separate topics, there is an intersection of them that should be of growing interest to modeling actuaries. This column from the Modeling Section Chair explores this area, asking how we will govern the increasing use of innovative modeling efficiency techniques.

Description: This article presents a case study that examines the implication of using real-world interest rate scenario generators with a block of fixed deferred annuities. We contrast cash flow testing results based on New York 7 deterministic scenarios to stochastic scenarios generated with the Academy Interest Rate Generator , as well as an alternative economic scenario generator designed explicitly to capture the risk of a persistently low interest rate environment and the transition to a rising interest rate environment.

Description: How to deal with worst practices in spreadsheets and still have verifiable results.

Description: The article describes the key components of actuarial model, leading practices in designing them, and characteristics of well-built models.