Description: This article describes techniques and models used to forecast mortality improvement and the considerations that underlie long-term mortality improvement projections in the United States.

Description: This abstract is for a paper that develops a conceptually rigorous formulation of the cost of capital method for estimating margins for mortality, lapse and other forms of underwriting risk.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Project for Actuarial Science Education, which aims to help budding actuaries solve actuarial examination questions and master classroom material.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that compares the fee obtained to the one deducted throughout the contract.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that models an insurer’s surplus as a Geometric Brownian motion with Poisson jumps.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes a simpler way of finding the variance of a deferred annuity.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that shows the impact of relaxing constraints, in consideration of the discrepancies observed in the recent history of mortality improvement rates as a function of gender, income and data source.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that introduces KDBINTMTM (Knowing, Doing, Being, Inspiring, and Networking), the framework in how it is being defined, and a plan to measure success for actuarial programs.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements maximum entropy principle in pricing weather derivatives.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a number of analytic results for GMDB ratchet options.