Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a quantitative framework in which two risk management strategies are mathematically formulated.

Description: What is the 'best' post-retirement financial strategy for a particular participant of a defined contribution plan? The answer to this question must accommodate a number of risks, the most obvious of which are related to longevity, inflation, investment, and health. Moreover, what makes this question especially intriguing is that its solution must be molded to the wealth, features and agenda of a particular individual and/or family. Many of the constraints and goals are qualitative, and standard market and population metrics may have limited significance. This is the abstract of a paper that deals with implementation issues, qualitative goals and constraints, and tailor-made solutions.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that introduces a bivariate compound loss model describing the aggregate losses from two lines of insurance businesses.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that develops a risk-neutral valuation methodology that takes different tax structures into consideration and applies it to a simplified withdrawal guarantee as well as a representative empirical Variable Annuity contract.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers the Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits (GMWB) variable annuity rider under a static withdrawal strategy but allowing for early surrenders.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that assesses the optimal manner to collapse a factor with many levels into one with a smaller number of levels.

Description: The abstract for the paper What if Mortality was to Diminish Much More than Forecasted? Implications for Financing Social Security.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Interdependency of Increasing Life Expectancy and Driving Life Expectancy of Elderly Populations.

Description: This is the abstract of the presentation that shows results obtained from a mortality study based on Canadian pensioners data available from records of the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan as of December 31st, 2008. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2011.

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