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PAPERS
- Sample Medical Actuarial Pricing Basic Burning Cost and Advanced Machine Learning Report
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted September 27, 2023) - Notes on Risk Classification – Cost vs. Efficiency. Practical considerations for the U.S. P&C Market
By Joshua Wykle, FCAS (Posted September 27, 2023) - “Primer on IFRS 17”
By CAS Reserves Working Group (Patel et al.) (Posted December 16, 2021) - "The Roulette Wheel and the Drunken Sailor: Principal-Agent Theory and its Ramifications for Insurance and Reinsurance Risk Management"
By Neil M. Bodoff, FCAS, MAAA (Posted November 3, 2021) - "A Proposal for a Universal Actuarial Notation"
By Andrew Louca (Posted July 28 2020) - "Estimation of Individual Claim Liabilities"
By Marco De Virgilis and Pierluigi Cerqueti (Posted January 21, 2020) - "Geo-Spatial Metrics for Insurance Risk Concentration and Diversification"
By Ivelin M. Zvezdov (Posted March 12, 2019) - "Terraforming Data Science/Big Data Strategy: Building a modeling regime that works for the future"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted March 9, 2018) - "Extensions of Morse-Smale Regression with Application to Actuarial Science"
By Colleen Farrelly (Posted December 11, 2017) - "Reinsurance Pricing and Optimization in Emerging Markets"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted August 23, 2017) - "Applying Stochastic Loss Reserving to quantify variability in IBNR"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted August 23, 2017) - "Ratemaking for Emerging Liabilities in Property & Casualty Insurance: Practical Tools and Enriching Imagination"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted August 23, 2017) - "Actuarial Review of Commercial General Insurance Syed Danish Ali"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted June 6, 2017) - "Measuring Operational Excellence in Reserving"
By Johannes Schneider and Vicenzo Salipante (Posted June 28, 2016) - "Developments on the Reserving Uncertainty Frontier"
By Syed Danish Ali (Posted June 28, 2016) - "Third party motor liability ratemaking with R"
By Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato, Ph.D. (Posted June 4, 2012) - "Sustainability of Earnings: A Framework for Quantitative Modeling of Strategy, Risk, and Value"
By Neil M. Bodoff, FCAS, MAAA (Posted April 28, 2011) - "Measurement of Risk-Adjusted Profit and Calculation of Fair Premium"
By Yingjie Zhang (Posted September 2, 2010) - "Discarding Risk Avoidance and Embracing Risk Optimization: Managing Reinsurance Credit Risk"
By Neil Bodoff, FCAS, MAAA (Posted June 2, 2010) - "How to Create a Market Cycle"
By Dave Clark, FCAS (Posted March 26, 2010) - "Not If Affordability Data Adds Value but How to Add Real Value by Leveraging Affordability Data: Enhancing Predictive Capability of Credit Scoring Using Affordability Data"
By Dhruv Sharma, George Overstreet, and Peter Beling (Posted October 1, 2009) - "Immigration Insurance"
By Kelly McKeethan, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU (Posted August 18, 2008) - "A Conceptual Proposal to Use Appraisal Value as a Supplementary Basis for Financial Valuation"
By Neil Bodoff, FCAS, MAAA (Posted August 6, 2009) - "Principles of the Chain-Ladder “Method” Selecting and Updating Claims Development Factors"
By Rajesh Sahasrabudde (Posted July 30, 2008, updated August 11, 2008) - Discussion of "Principles of the Chain-Ladder ‘Method’ Selecting and Updating Claims Development Factors" by Rajesh Sahasrabudde
By Dr. Klaus D. Schmidt (Posted August 26, 2009) - "Principles Underlying Actuarial Science"
By M Allaben, C Diamantoukos, A Dicke, S Gutterman, S Klugman, R Lord, W Luckner, R Miccolis, J Tan (Posted July 30, 2008)