Thursday August 9, 2001


Coffee and Danish  8:30AM

Opening of Conference 9:00AM

Presidential Musings-Rob Brown (9:15-9:40)

Session 1: Annuities (9:40-10:20)  (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

Investment Accumulation Guarantees: the Canadian Approach
Mary Hardy

Unit Linked Life Insurance with Lapse Rates Depending on Economic Factors
Adam Kolkiewicz

Break 10:20-10:40

Session 2: Health Care (10:40-11:40)  (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

An Introduction to Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs
Marjorie A. Rosenberg

Individual Lifetime Health Account
Richard Ullman

Ratemaking for Plan Reimbursement Provisions that Affect Severity in Health Insurance
Chuck Fuhrer

Lunch 12:00-1:20

Session 3: Financial Mathematics -EA Credit (1:20-2:40)  + (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

Hedging for Long-Term Derivative Securities
Yu Lin Cathy Zhou

Simulation of American Options
Saul Warhaft

Pricing Dynamic Insurance Risks using the Principle of Equivalent Utility
Virginia R. Young

Pricing Equity-Indexed Annuities with Partial Exotic Options
Lee Hangsuck

Break (2:40-3:00)

Session 4: Financial Mathematics (3:00-4:40) (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

Pricing Multifactor Path-dependent Options using Low-discrepancy Sequences
Ken Seng Tan

Quantile Hedging and Insurance Securitization
Diego Hernandez Rangel

Options on Mortality-Contingent Claims
David Promislow

Unifying Structural Models with Reduced- Form Models
Cho-Jieh Chen

Pricing Formulas For Some Popular Derivatives
Zhongxian Jerry Han

RECEPTION  6:30  MATH TOWER LOUNGE


Friday August 10, 2001

Coffee and Danish 8:00AM

Session 5:Pensions EA Credit (8:30-9:50)

Qualified Pension Plans and Health Care for the Elderly: The Perfect Macroeconomic Immunization Portfolio
Robert L. Brown

The Calculation of Expectation and Variance of Annuity under Various Annuity Form using a Cashflow Approach
Louis Adam

A Cash-Flow Approach to Pension Funding
Zaki Khorasanee

Application of a Linear Regression Model to the Proactive Investment Strategy of a Pension Fund
Kenneth G. Buffin

Break (9:50-10:10)

Session 6: Property and Casualty (10:10-11:10) (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

            Another View of the Property/Casualty Loss Reserving Process
            Colin Ramsay

Credibility Using a Variable Parameter Regression Model
Jungsywan H. Sepanski

Multivariate Credibility for Aggregate Loss Models
Edward W. Frees

Session 7: Education (11:10-11:50)

Training Future Actuaries: A Dynamic Financial Analysis Case Study as an Educational Tool
Richard Gorvett

A "Loss Models" Course for Undergraduate Students
Arnold Shapiro, Andreas Milidonis and Mindi Motko

Lunch (12:00-1:20)

Session 8: Econometrics-EA Credit (1:20-2:40) (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

Measuring the Risk of Bond Default
Emiliano A. Valdez

Modelling the Nasdaq and S&P Indices
Boyang Liu

Notes on a Bivariate Regime-Switching Model of US and Canadian Stock Returns
Anping Wang

Valuation of Equity-Indexed Annuities under Stochastic Interest Rates
Sheldon Lin

Session 9: Monte Carlo Processing (2:40-3:20)

CLARA and the Selection of Representative Scenarios
Steven Craighead

Generalized Faure Sequences
Ou Wang

Break 3:20-3:40

Session 10: Education and Research Status (3:40-5:00)

Report on Current Research
Bruce Iverson

New Actuarial Profession Video
Judy Yore

Various Education and Research Discussions
 

BANQUET  6:30  OSU FACULTY CLUB


Saturday, August 11, 2001





Coffee and Danish 8:30AM

Session 11: Statistics and Ruin Theory (9:00-10:20) (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

An XML Based Standard for Representation of Mortality Tables: How and Why?
Jacques Rioux

Comparing Two Models with Dependent Classes of Business
Kam C. Yuen

Estimation and Testing of the Poisson Autoregression Model of Order 1
Keith Freeland and Brendan McCabe

Parametric Empirical Bayes Estimation of the Net Premium with Right Censored Data
Mostafa Mashayekhi

Break (10:20-10:40)

Session 12: Statistics and Ruin Theory (10:40-11:40) (Professional Development -- 1 cr.)

Simulation of Extreme Bivariate Values
Rafael Gonzalez

Data Mining for Insurance Risk Analysis
Zeng Huang and Lijia Guo

Stochastic Analysis of Bonus Malus Systems
Shelly Zacks and Benny Levikson

Close of Conference

 

Lunch 11:50 - 12:30

 

State Fair Transportation to be arranged