Description: This abstract describes a paper that reviews earlier research and identifies the major factors affecting the use of futures hedging by commodity producers.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a stochastic population structure model based on the Leslie matrix, in which a Lee-Carter model framework is used to describe the future mortality and fertility changes.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that uses a dataset provided by a private insurance company which contained demographic, cost, and diagnostic data which allows the determination of which factors drove costs up and how these factors will affect the total cost for future years.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that gives an in-depth look at genetic algorithms - what they are, why they are important for actuaries, when to use them, and how to create them.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes the Society of Actuaries’ new research strategy and recent research projects.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that uses a combination of several analytical methods to find closed-form solutions to the embedded options of the plain-vanilla GMWB rider.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that discusses models to predict damage from future storms and help the utility properly manage their risk.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that develops a framework for quantifying tail risk.

Description: This abstract describes research that finds an explicit form of the discounted moments of the surplus at the time of the last jump before ruin for the compound Poisson dual risk model.

Description: This is the Health and Social Care Analysis Regarding the State of Canadian Women Living in the Alone Stage of Retirement paper authored by Douglas W. Andrews and Lori Curtis for Session 4B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.