Description: This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability. The Society of Actuaries breaks out the economic cost of overweight versus obesity for the U.S. and for Canada.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that develops a fully integrated approach to spatial reinsurance questions and maps the nonlinear dependencies of loss cost ratios across geographic regions in a country via a copula method.

Description: The article announces the 2012 Actuarial Research Conference.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a framework for the development of livestock insurance and examines how livestock insurance may be developed, using Canada as an example.

Description: This paper examines claim transaction data as experienced in the Canadian pet insurance industry. The current practice is to use an exposure unit approach to estimate the pure premium cost. This approach is applied in this paper in order to reveal certain cost patterns in accident, illness and death benefit costs.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that implements maximum entropy principle in pricing weather derivatives.

Description: This abstract describes a study that sets up an experience rating system to determine next year’s premium.