Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a change to the variable annuity fee structure that would lower fee rates without reducing the insurer's profit.

Description: View the 2019.1 Actuarial Research Conference Proceedings.

Description: This is an abstract of presentation from 39th Actuarial Research Conference, 8/5-7/2004, University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. In this talk, we examine the modeling of insurance losses resulting from natural catastrophes, particularly losses to residential and commercial structures as a result of earthquakes. The model proposed can also be used for other types of natural catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes.

Description: This paper considers the question of how the adjustment mechanisms described for the Swedish and German social security systems might be incorporated into private sector DB plans of the following types: multi-employer and single employer.

Description: The abstract for the paper Pension Plan Life-Cycle Funding Approach.

Description: Abstract for “Requirements to Make the Housing Asset a Viable Retirement Asset.” This paper examines the characteristics of an ideal product and the type of institution that would be well positioned to offer the ideal product which would allow a housing asset to be a viable retirement asset.

Description: The abstract for the paper Aging of the Elderly: Can an intragenerational Funding Approach Help Society with Improved Longevity?

Description: Introduction of a symposium of papers that arose out of the discussions of the Committee on Retirement Systems Practice Education regarding the adequacy of defined benefit pension plan funding.

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds section which presents the assumptions and methods underlying the actuarial estimates.