Actuarial Aspects of Individual Life insurance and Annuity Contracts, 3rd Edition


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Actuarial Aspects of Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Contracts provides a comprehensive overview of the features and financial aspects of traditional, indexed, and variable products and their related rider benefits. Product development, pricing, financial reporting methods, and regulatory requirements are addressed for all products, including those with derivative-based guarantees. This provides an introduction to actuarial techniques and the relationships among various financial values for the student and provides a comprehensive summary of current practices on more recent products for the experienced actuary. Spreadsheets are available on the ACTEX website to demonstrate profit testing alternatives.




Actuarial Exam Tactics


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Achieving Your Pinnacle: A Career Guide for Actuaries


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Tom Miller recognized the need to write this book a few years ago, after reviewing postings on popular discussion pages frequented by actuaries. He was surprised and troubled by the magnitude of misinformation posted on these websites. Clearly actuaries and actuarial students posting this information are only trying to be helpful to one another, but they frequently lack the necessary experience and expertise to offer sound advice. Tom seeks to provide readers of his career guide with valuable insights regarding the actuarial employment market, covering topics such as choice of product specialization, how to conduct effective job searches, switching successfully from insurance to consulting and inside tips on what clients are really looking for when they interview you. Armed with deep knowledge and a unique perspective on the actuarial profession, Tom expects that this book will be a resource that will help you make better career decisions and "Achieve Your Pinnacle."







The Influential Actuary


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Lays out specific tools and strategies that enable actuaries and other technical professionals to add greater value to their organizations by being more influential in the way they communicate, influence and relate to others. --from publisher description







Stochastic Loss Reserving Using Generalized Linear Models


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In this monograph, authors Greg Taylor and GrĂ¡inne McGuire discuss generalized linear models (GLM) for loss reserving, beginning with strong emphasis on the chain ladder. The chain ladder is formulated in a GLM context, as is the statistical distribution of the loss reserve. This structure is then used to test the need for departure from the chain ladder model and to consider natural extensions of the chain ladder model that lend themselves to the GLM framework.




Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science


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This book is for actuaries and financial analysts developing their expertise in statistics and who wish to become familiar with concrete examples of predictive modeling.