Description: This abstract summarizes the background for a presentation at the Actuarial Research Conference that describes summer actuarial science programs for minority high school students and the role they have in the profession's diversity efforts. Expanding the number of such programs is explored.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that separates mortality into component parts in order to analyze observed trends over time.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents an analysis of the capital needs, needed return on capital, and optimal reinsurance retention for insurance companies, all within the context of the compound Poisson distribution.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a simple explicit solution for an efficient portfolio with positive weights.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements a lifetime utility model including both GMDB options and term life insurance and allowing the policyholder to optimize both consumption and fund allocation decisions.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that highlights technological, demographic, cultural, criminal, regulatory, and global market changes that foreshadow threats to marketplace firms’ survival.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that generalizes the Poisson process to a renewal process, especially Erlang (n) renewal processes.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that analyzes the sample size effects on the estimation of the beta.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that shows a study on a long-term disability insurance portfolio under stochastic interest rates.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the probability of a systemic event occurring within a financial network.