Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.

Description: An article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that discusses the Annual Prize to the author or authors writing the best paper to appear in the North American Actuarial Journal, the leading scientific publication of the Society. It announces the winners of the award, Mary R. Hardy for A Regime–Switching Model of Long-Term Stock Returns,and Phelim P. Boyle, Adam W. Kolkiewicz and Ken Seng Tan, for Valuation of the Reset Options Embedded in Some Equity–Linked Insurance Products.

Description: This paper provides an overview of deductible ratemaking , and the pros and cons of various approaches under different parametric models are compared

Description: The purpose of this paper is to understand characteristics of a household that drive life insurance demand with more sophisticated analytical techniques. The analysis is based on the Survey of Consumer Finances data, a probability sample of the U.S. population. Household demand of two types of insurance, term life insurance and whole life insurance, is examined jointly. We model both the frequency and the severity of demand for insurance building on the work of Lin and Grace 2007 by using covariates that they developed.

Description: This paper provides an overview of deductible ratemaking , and the pros and cons of various approaches under different parametric models are compared

Description: This predictive modeling paper, “Household Life Insurance Demand – A Multivariate Two-Part Model is one of a collection of essays that examine how existing or new methods or models can be applied to the life insurance industry.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper on dependent multi-peril ratemaking models.

Description: This presentation 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 article describes the 2009 actuarial research conference.t

Description: This abstract describes a paper that develops a Lorenz curve and Gini index that can cope with adverse selection and measure potential profit.