Description: This template was created as a tool to help brainstorm ideas for session topics that are aligned with the SOA Competency Framework. The following table lists the eight core SOA competencies identified by the membership as being key to actuarial success. Every meeting topic will fall into one or more of the competencies. Aligning meetings with the competency framework will help create better professional development offerings to support member needs.

Description: This actuarial standard of practice ASOP provides guidance to actuaries when performing professional services with respect to designing, reviewing or changing risk classification systems.

Description: This zip file contains the following Excel workbooks in support of the 1996 Group Long-Term Disability Experience Study: 1. SOATAB~1.XLS, 2. SOATAB~2.XLS, and TABLE95A.XLS.

Description: Discussion resulting from presentation of Held's Plastic Omega paper at the Living to 100 and Beyond symposium, Session 1. This is Held's response to Jay Olshansky's comments regarding his paper, which discussed research on the aging process.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2002. This paper presents data on the mortality, and mortality improvement trends, for retired U.S. Civil Service employees and their survivors, and analyzes the relationship to such factors as: Indexed final salary, Amount of indexed annuity, Total service at retirement, Duration on the Annuity Rolls, Retiree vs. beneficiary, Disability vs. non-disability.

Description: This paper presents a value-at-risk platform for integration of assets and liabilities in a rigorous risk management framework. The model measures all major risks faced by a P&C company. The paper demonstrates how this new technology can be used to assist in maximizing capital efficiency and migrating from a risk management environment governed almost exclusively by ad-hoc rules of thumb to one governed by true risk management principles. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: This paper expands upon current capital analysis by introducing a practical approach that considers the objectives of all stakeholders on an insurance company in setting appropriate capital targets. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: This paper focuses on the situation of women at high ages and the implications of longer life for women. This paper draws on and brings together work done by the Society of Actuaries in connection with the 2005 post-retirement risk survey, work from Social Security administration studies, U.S. government census data, WISER, the MetLife Mature Market Institute and papers funded by the Social Security research center.

Description: This paper discusses a test of whether ERM influences insurers’ stock market performance. Results show that stock market performance is linked to the characteristic of industry events and specific firm characteristics rather than to the success of ERM.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to help practitioners and regulators more accurately quantify the potential impact of market risk on insurance products with equity-linked guarantees. To this end, this paper examines time series model selection and assessment based on residuals, with a focus on regime switching models. Also it discusses the difficulties in defining residuals for such processes and propose several possible alternatives. We determine that a stochastic approach to defining the residuals is the only way to generate residuals that are normally distributed under the model hypothesis.