Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers an alternative way of estimating distribution parameters for nonnegative random variables.

Description: As is the tradition, the Education and Research Section has a morning meeting, over continental breakfast, at the Annual Meeting. Since that meeting signifies the end of a term and the beginning of a new one, it offers the perfect setting for presenting the past activities and realizations, as well as the planning for the year to come. As both the outgoing Chair, myself, and the incoming Chair, Tom Edwalds, were in attendance, we thought we would seize the opportunity to officially pass the baton! From Expanding Horizons, January 2006.

Description: A short article from the Expanding Horizons newsletter, issue 26, published in April of 2003 that details the treasurers report for the E&R Section.

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: This abstract describes a paper that looks at ways of pricing options under the enhanced diffusion Model.

Description: Article from the Expanding Horizons newsletter from December 2004 in which the section chair addresses the section and talks about the E&E syllabus and the issue with financial economics and also future activities such as the ARC conference.

Description: Recap of the Education and Research Section breakfast at the 2006 SOA annual meeting.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that describes a simpler way of finding the variance of a deferred annuity.

Description: This article discusses the Halmstad prize, announces winners and asks for volunteers.

Description: One of the sessions the E&R Section sponsored at the Annual Meeting in New York was titled "The New Math: Unorthodox Methods in Actuarial Science." The whole idea was to present academic results to practitioners who, in turn, could put them to good use.