Description: This paper discusses some of the models used to quantify risk, note some areas where improvements in standard methods are needed, and in some cases suggest alternative approaches for risks in Property and Casualty Insurance and Life Insurance.

Description: 2011 ERM Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the entitled paper.

Description: This paper evaluates the current practice of operational risk management in the insurance sector. Operational risk is nothing new in insurance, but, because of regulatory requirements, companies have initiated computation of risk capital for their operational losses. The current effort to manage operational risk is not a naturally evolving phenomenon, and operational risk, in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Basel II definition, is unlikely to be a significant cause of insurers’ failure. In addition, the current Basel II definition of operational risk is not suitable for the insurance sector. Consequently, the invention of models and tools based on the definition is incomplete and illusionary. My findings are based on the analysis of dozens of interviews with insurance industry professionals. I demonstrate the way operational risk is quantified in practice, show that the result obtained from this computation is of littl e use in managerial decision making and propose a set of policy recommendations illustrating the characteristics of operational risk in insurance. This study can be used as a platform for launching dialogues to initiate fresh thinking about operational risk in insurance beyond the current artificial and narrow boundaries.

Description: This is the session transcript from Session 6A: Mortality Improvement Approaches from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 2B: Older-Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: This paper presents a history of traditional topics like actuarial cost methods and assumptions, the history of past inquiries into the dynamic and stochastic nature of pension costs, and the perceptions and concerns of pension actuaries of the past. From The Future of Pension Plan Funding and Disclosure Monograph, M-RS05-1.

Description: This presentation concentrates on the regression analysis of three waves of data 2001, 2003, and 2005 from the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey CAMS. The CAMS collects consumption data from a random subset of respondents in the Health and Retirement Study HRS . The HRS is a nationally representative sample of persons who were aged 51 to 61 in 1992 and their spouses or partners. The survey is longitudinal in nature, with the baseline interview conducted in 1992 and subsequent waves occurring every two years. [Comments on long-term care needs and reverse mortgages will be offered at oral presentation without quantitative data.] From 'Needs and Spending in Retirement: Unraveling the Mystery' Symposium, Washington, D.C. October 2007.

Description: This paper is about the world's oldest-old population - those 80 years and older - and their life expectancy. It provides a few methods for extending the life tables to age 100 and beyond, and projects mortality patterns at very old ages.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to outline a framework that measures 'decision' and to argue that such a measure is the rightful focus of the enterprise. The paper develops the principle of maximizing expected utility as a normative decision theory from its philosophical roots in order to motivate its proper usage i.e., to the enterprise's ultimate good. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: Discussion of Living to 100 Session 5A. The papers presented propose a new method to price the longevity risk premia in order to tackle the pricing obstacle and reviewed the insurance industry implications on retirement planning and the secondary market in insurance.