Description: This article from the Actuarial Research Clearing House, ARCH, discusses that ARCH is an informal electronic publication presenting current actuarial research, outlines the requirements for publication and states the editorial policy.

Description: This paper shows the application of a threshold strategy on the surplus level of an insurance risk model results in a process that can be analyzed as a doubly infinite Markov chain with finite blocks. The resulting procedures are then used to calculate the probability distributions for time of ruin, the surplus immediately prior to ruin, and the deficit at ruin. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2008, Vol.1.

Description: Discusses results of author's recent survey of professionals in the viatical and life settlement, a.k.a. secondary insurance industry, to discover how actuaries could best serve this particular business.

Description: The Society of Actuaries has recently issued a Request for Proposal to identify specific consumer profiles and the retirement income strategies appropriate to each profile.

Description: This article reviews Spreadsheet Check and Control, a book that provides techniques to avoid errors in spreadsheets and to check existing spreadsheets for errors.

Description: The power and flexibility of Microsoft Office Excel have made in the ubiquitous analysis tool of choice for insurance companies in determining premiums and the risk value of clients. This article discusses controls to reduce errors in spreadsheets.

Description: Editorial addressing letters to the editor.

Description: This article discusses best practices in designing spreadsheets with the end-user in mind.

Description: This book is all about granularity. The authors envision a data warehouse with information at the policy level or lower .

Description: Discusses Object Oriented, OO, programming language concepts and SOLID Object Oriented principles.