Description: This paper focuses on portfolios of exposed properties at risk of loss from natural perils such as wind and earthquake in the context of property/liability insurance.

Description: This paper addresses the questions of expectations from actuarial graduates and actuarial capabilities that they should have upon graduation.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents an analysis of the capital needs, needed return on capital, and optimal reinsurance retention for insurance companies, all within the context of the compound Poisson distribution.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a simple explicit solution for an efficient portfolio with positive weights.

Description: This presentation from the 44th Actuarial Research Conference held in 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin a consulting view of the role of research in industry. Its themes are emerging trends and applications, theory and practice, and model risk. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 2010, Vol. 1.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that separates mortality into component parts in order to analyze observed trends over time.

Description: Supporting Excel file for 2021 SRCSC.

Description: This paper incorporates a jump-diffusion process into the original Lee-Carter model, and uses it to forecast mortality rates and analyze mortality securitization.

Description: This abstract summarizes the background for a presentation at the Actuarial Research Conference that describes summer actuarial science programs for minority high school students and the role they have in the profession's diversity efforts. Expanding the number of such programs is explored.

Description: Read the November 2019 issue of The Modeling Platform, published by the Modeling Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.