Description: This abstract describes a presentation that uses a dataset provided by a private insurance company which contained demographic, cost, and diagnostic data which allows the determination of which factors drove costs up and how these factors will affect the total cost for future years.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a stochastic population structure model based on the Leslie matrix, in which a Lee-Carter model framework is used to describe the future mortality and fertility changes.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that investigates the extent of increasing the Social Security full retirement age in order to reduce the program’s funding deficit.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents new data that accounts for the confounding park factor variable in Minor League Baseball.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a quantitative framework in which two risk management strategies are mathematically formulated.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that reviews earlier research and identifies the major factors affecting the use of futures hedging by commodity producers.

Description: This abstract describes a paper in which several issues surrounding the 2011 paper “Copula Regression”, Variance volume 5-issue1, by Rahul A. Parsa and Stuart A. Klugman, are discussed.

Description: The abstract for the paper Living to 100 and Beyond: An Extreme Value Study

Description: This paper discusses the key forces likely to influence U.K. mortality in the 21st century, and describes the methodology and assumptions used in the latest projections of U.K. mortality. The paper also describes recent tables of mortality rates published by the Continuous Mortality Investigation, based on the experience of people taking out insurance contracts and the approaches taken to projecting these.

Description: A recent study sheds light on the measurement and implications of the relationship between increased morbidity and declining disability. The results were not consistent across all populations. This study of the compression of morbidity is part of a wider project called the M-project, led by the four authors, which aims to explore the demographic factors leading to an increase in the adult longevity, investigate the phenomenon called the compression of mortality and develop a new methodological approach to longevity analysis with focus on the modal age at death M.