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Description: Feature article discussing the power of psychosocial data.

Description: Announcement of a faculty position in Actuarial Science and Mathematics at Robert Morris University.

Description: Request for letters to the editor of the Expanding Horizons section.

Description: On the Fair Value of Business Acquired part I of II by Joe Koltisko from The Financial Reporter, September 2001, Issue No. 47.

Description: This article provides a pre-release summary of Microsoft Windows Vista personal computer operating system.

Description: This paper discusses mathematical modeling and pricing of 'Stable Value' financial products offered to pension plan providers. These products target a risk-averse population of investors who have a significant preference for a stability of returns. The paper offers a quantitative methodology that reflects a decision making process applicable in the situation of incomplete markets where traditional arbitrage free arguments are invalid.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the optimal reinsurance problem when risk is measured by a general risk measure. It is demonstrated that there is a “stable optimal retention” that will show no sensitivity, insofar as it will solve the optimal reinsurance problem for many risk measures, thus providing a very robust reinsurance plan.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents an actuarial model which determines benefits to be paid in phased retirement and in full retirement. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2011.

Description: From June 11 through August 3, 2007, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [UIUC] hosted a National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates on the topic 'Stochastic Modeling in Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics.' This Experience, provided to 6 undergraduate mathematics students from universities across the United States, was directed by Professor Rick Gorvett, the Director of the UIUC Actuarial Science Program. This report summarizes the program and describes the research projects undertaken.