Description: The research investigates the challenges associated with determining a “fair value” assessment for embedded options in two product types and incorporates the process into product pricing and liability valuation

Description: First of two research papers introduces and explores results of two metrics of financial stress among U.S. multiemployer pension plans.

Description: This is the Fully Funded Pensions for Centenarians abstract authored by Jonathan Barry Forman for Session 5B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is the Discussion Summary by Erwin J. Tan for the Mortality Patterns Session 4A of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: During the last decade, a vast activity had been observed in generalizing of the classical discrete distributions. The main idea was to apply the extended versions fur modeling different kinds of dependent count or frequency data structure in various fields. In the present paper we suggest extensions of the classical univariate geometric, negative binomial, Poisson, Bernoulli, binomial and logarithmic series distributions, by including an additional parameter. It has a natural interpretation in terms of zero-inflation, and because of this we named the corresponding generalized versions adding inflated-parameter.

Description: Description of the scheduled sessions that are either sponsored or co-sponsored by the E&R Section.

Description: This article list descriptions of the sessions that are either sponsored or co–sponsored by the Education and Research Section.

Description: The Actuarial Foundation's (TAF) AERF Committee of and the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2007 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science. Grants will be funded through TAF and the SOA.

Description: One of the sessions the E&R Section sponsored at the Annual Meeting in New York was titled "The New Math: Unorthodox Methods in Actuarial Science." The whole idea was to present academic results to practitioners who, in turn, could put them to good use.

Description: A description of the of FAP design and development process. The release of FAP Module 1 earlier this year marked a significant achievement for the Society of Actuaries' basic education system.