Description: This is the Executive Summary of the results of a study, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation, which assesses the extent to which retirement planning software programs help users understand post-retirement risks.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited.

Description: The abstract for the paper Implications of an Aging Population in India: Challenges and Opportunities.

Description: The abstract for the paper Seasons and Longevity: Mortality Trajectories among the Oldest Old.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that relates to determining the next standards applicable for pension plan valuation in Canada, depending upon further decisions to be made by the Actuarial Standard Board-Conseil des norms actuarielles.

Description: This abstract describes a study that presents a hypothetical example of a UK term annuity firm and studies its solvency over the period 1985-2010 under various economic capital calculation approaches.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that models a firm value by a jump-diffusion process and derives an explicit formula for the default probability.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that discusses the definition of forward rates in general and gives a generally valid definition of forward rates, and continues the work of Norberg (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, 47(2), 105-112), who made the first attempt to define general forward transition rates.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation in which the use of the propensity score in health care studies can minimize biases stemming from non-random treatment assignment and lead to appropriate conclusions on the effect of the intervention.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a Bayesian hierarchical model to analyze intercompany claim triangles.