Description: Statistics about funded status for AFTRA multiemployer pension plan

Description: This paper expands upon current capital analysis by introducing a practical approach that considers the objectives of all stakeholders of an insurance company in setting appropriate capital targets. In addition, the paper introduces a technique for estimating capital adequacy that is based on mapping stochastic distributions of regulatory and rating agency capital measures to observable financial rating transition matrices.

Description: Questions and answers related to the implementation of the 2012 Individual Annuity Reserving Table, including a projection scale example.

Description: Report on survey designed to get feedback on underwriting guidelines, requirements, assumptions and practices used in assessment of older age applicants.

Description: The results of the 2016 Group Term Life Experience Study, which includes experience for policies in force anytime during 2010 through 2013.

Description: The SOA's GDIEC has completed their study of termination experience for the period 2004-2012. Included is a preliminary report and pivot tables.

Description: A follow-up to the first Preferred Class Structure Report, which contains the additional analysis of areas identified while preparing the first report of preferred class structure data from statistical agent submissions.

Description: A follow-up to the first Preferred Class Structure Report, which contains the additional analysis of areas identified while preparing the first report of preferred class structure data from statistical agent submissions.

Description: This paper illustrates the application of stochastic control methods in managing the risk associated with an insurance business. We present the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman HJB equation and demonstrate its use in finding the optimal investment strategy based on some given criteria. Here we consider an insurance business with a fixed amount available for investment in a portfolio consisting of one non-risky asset and one risky asset. The object of the resulting control problem is to determine the investment strategy that minimizes infinite time ruin probability. The existence of a solution to the resulting HJB equation is shown. The relevant verification lemma is not presented in this paper and a numerical algorithm is given instead. Examples applied to exponential claims are also presented.

Description: This is a presentation From 38th Annual Actuarial Research Conference 8/9/2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pricing health insurance presents numerous statistical problems. This paper develops a non-parametric method for handling these problems. This method involves kernel density estimation of the charge level distribution and also kernel smoothing between the reimbursement function derivatives. It derives some properties of the estimates so obtained. It illustrates the method with some dental data and compares the results to some other simpler estimation techniques.