Includes articles on improved strategies or techniques that can be used by practicing actuaries. One of the goals was to improve communication between the practicing and the academic actuarial communities.
The journal includes articles, technical papers, commentaries/opinions, discussions, essays, book reviews, and letters. The technical papers are neither abstract nor esoteric; they are practical and readable.
Topics covered include: AIDS, annuity products, asset-liability matching, cash-flow testing, casualty ratemaking, credibility theory, credit insurance, disability insurance, expense analysis, experience studies, FASB issues, financial reporting, group insurance, health insurance, individual risk taking, insurance regulations, international issues, investments, liability insurance, loss reserves, marketing, pensions, pricing issues, product development, reinsurance, reserving issues, risk-based capital, risk theory, social insurance, solvency issues, taxation, valuation issues, workers' compensation, and others.
ISSN 1064-6647
Copyright © Absalom Press
1996
Constrained Forecasting of the Number of IBNR Claims, Louis G. Doray
What We Say in the NAIC Annual Statement Blank Actuarial Opinion, Kenneth W. Faig Jr.
A Possibilistic Linear Programming Method for Asset Allocation, Lijia Guo and Zhen Huang
A Proposal for Improving the System of Financing Health Care in Singapore, Robert Keng Heong Lian and Loi Soh Loi
Third Party Administrator (TPA) Service Pricing and Incentive Contracts, Hou-Wen Jeng
Annuity Choices for Pensioners, Zaki M. Khorasanee
Disclosure and Confidentiality Requirements of Corporate Pension Plan Actuaries, Theodore Konshak
An Approach to Estimating Market Value and Duration of Interest-Sensitive Whole Life Contracts, Thomas J. Merfeld
Concentration in American Property-Casualty Companies, Edward Nissan
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 4, No.1, 1996, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 4, No. 2, 1996, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Nonmedical Limits in Individual Life Insurance, James B. Ross and Shalini E. Perumpral
Nonmedical Limits in Individual Life Insurance, James B. Ross and Shalini E. Perumpral
Pension Funding by Normal Costs or Amortization of Unfunded Liabilities, Keith P. Sharp
Methodologies for Determining Reserve Liabilities in the Workers Compensation High Deductible Program, Jerome J. Siewert
Participating GICs: Performance Attribution Analysis, Alec Stais and John P. Toohey III
Bias of Excluding High and Low Data for Long-Tailed Distributions, Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu
1995
Discussion of Leonard T. Guarini and Edward P. Lotkowski's "Model Year Rating for Automobile Liability and Injury Coverages", Mohammed Q. Ashab
Sensitivity Testing of Prdperty/Casualty Cash Flows, Ralph S. Blanchard III and Eduardo P. Marchena
Obtaining a Life Table for Spinal Cord Injury Patients Using Information Theory, Patrick L. Brockett and Yun Song
Recent Canadian Human Rights Decisions Having an Impact on Gender-Based Risk Classification Systems, Robert L. Brown
Discussion of Robert L. Brown's "Recent Canadian Human Rights Decisions Having an Impact on Gender-Based Risk Classification Systems", Patrick Butler
Life Insurer Risk-Based Capital: An Option Pricing Approach, Samuel H. Cox and Arthur M.B. Hogan
Discussion of Brian Jones' "Actuarial Conservatism: Not in Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans", Richard Daskais
Model Year Rating for Automobile Liability and Injury Coverages, Leonard T. Guarini and Edward P. Lotkowski
HIV, AIDS, Markov Processes, and Health and Disability Insurance, Steven Haberman
Actuarial Conservatism: Not in Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Brian A. Jones
A Pension Plan Incorporating Both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Principles, Zaki M. Khorasanee
Simulation of Investment Returns for a Money Purchase Fund, Zaki M. Khorasanee
Measuring and Managing Catastrophe Risk, Ronald T. Kozlowski and Stuart B. Mathewson
Discussion of Ronald T. Kozlowski and Stuart B. Mathewson's "Measuring and Managing Catastrophe Risk", Rade T. Musulin
Cross-Tested Defined Contribution Plans, Ho Kuen Ng
Decision Making Under Conflicting Criteria In Pension Valuations: An Expected Utility Model, Lisa Lipowski Posey and Arnold F. Shapiro
Expected Loss Development in Workers' Compensation Pricing: A Shift in Credibility, Christopher J. Poteet
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 3, No.1, 1995, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 3, No.2, 1995, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Surveillance of Life Insurer Solvency: A Comparison of Stock and The Multiple Scenario Cash Flow Financial Stress Tests, Ronald W. Spahr and Paul L. Gronewoller
Discussion of Leonard T. Guarini and Edward P. Lotkowski's "Model Year Rating for Automobile Liability and Injury Coverages", Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu
1994
Managing the Costs and Risks of Housing Finance: A New Role for Actuaries, Anthony Asher
Safety First and Ambiguity, Lawrence A. Berger and Howard Kunreuther
Tax Assistance to Qualified Retirement Savings Plans: Deferral or Waiver?, Robert L. Brown
"Tax Assistance to Qualified Retirement Savings Plans: Deferral or Waiver": Author's Reply to Previous the Discussion*, Robert L. Brown
Discussion of Robert L. Brown's "Tax Assistance to Qualified Retirement Savings Plans: Deferral or Waiver"*, Mark W. Campbell
An Introduction to Individual Disability Income Insurance, Mark J. Chartier
The Markov Chain Interest Rate Scenario Generator Revisited, Sarah L.M. Christiansen
Cost Containment in Workers' Compensation: Evaluating Medical Fee Schedules, David L. Durbin and Barry I. Llewellyn
A Statistical Approach to IBNR Reserves, Bradford S. Gile
Health Insurance Reform and Its Effects on the Small Employer Market: A Review of H.R. 3626, Anthony P. Hammond
Modeling Insurance Cash Flows for Universal Life Policies, Robert E. Hoyt
Disenrollment Patterns of Elderly in Managed Care and Fee for Service, Kenneth G. Manton, Dennis H. Tolley, Robert Newcomer, James C. Vertrees, and Charlene Harrington
Predicting Automobile Insurance Multi-Regional Base Pure Premiums, Edward Nissan and Iskandar S. Hamwi
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 2, No. 1, 1994, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 2, No.2, 1994, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Modal Premium Factors in Ordinary Life Insurance, James B. Ross and Criss G. Woodruff
Reconciling Two Rate Level Indications: A Chain Rule Approach, Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu
1993
The Definition of Insurance: Implications for a Health Insurance Demand Model, Mark J. Browne
On the Equivalence of the Loss Ratio and Pure Premium Methods of Determining Property and Casualty Rating Relativities, Robert L. Brown
Cost-Based Pricing of Individual Automobile Risk Transfer: Car-Mile Exposure Unit Analysis, Patrick Butler
Discussion of Patrick Butler's "Cost-Based Pricing of Individual Automobile Risk Transfer: Car-Mile Exposure Unit Analysis", Ruy A. Cardoso
Estimating the Effect of Statutory Changes on Insured Casualty Losses Using Generalized Indicator Variables, Ruy A. Cardoso
Managing the Relative Volumes of Participating and Nonparticipating Business in a Mutual Life Company, Robert G. Chadburn
A New Approach to Modeling Excess Mortality, Peter D. England and Steven Haberman
Discussion of Mark J. Browne's "The Definition of Insurance: Implications for a Health Insurance Demand Model", Charles Fuhrer
Group Insurance, Charles Fuhrer
Life Insurance Applications of Recursive Formulas, Timothy L. Giles
A Critique of Defined Contribution Plans Using a Simulation Approach, David M. Knox
Global Social Security: How the Rules are Changing in Certain Countries, Robert J. Myers
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 1, No.1, 1993, Colin Ramsay , Editor
Journal of Actuarial Practice, Volume 1, No. 2, 1993, Colin Ramsay , Editor
The Small Plan Audit Program: The Opinions of the Court, Arnold F. Shapiro
On Becoming a Cost Effective Company, Robert D. Shapiro and Barton H. Clennon
Book Reviews, Hoque A. Sharif
Funding Methods and Pension Plan Amendments, Keith P. Sharp
Discussion of David Knox's "A Critique of Defined Contribution Plans Using a Simulation Approach", Michael Sze
The Process of Pension Forecasting, Michael Sze
Ethical Issues, Helps, and Challenges: Perceptions of U.S. Actuaries, Therese M. Vaughan, Robert W. Cooper, and Garry L. Frank