2009 AWARD, PRIZE & COMPETITION WINNERS
ERM Research Excellence Award
B. John Manistre, FSA, FCIA, MAAA
"A Risk Management Tool for Long Liabilities: The Static Control Model."
John Hanson Memorial Prize
Jeremy Gold, FSA, MAAA, FCA, CERA and Gordon Latter, FSA
"The Case for Marking Public Pension Plan Liabilities to Market"
Jonathan Barry Forman, J.D. and Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, Ph.D.
"Optimal Retirement Age"
Individual Grant Competition Recipients
The Research Committee of The Actuarial Foundation (TAF), the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) of the Society of Actuaries sponsored the 2009 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science.
Congratulations to the 2009 Individual Grants Competition Recipients:
Dr. Doug Andrews – The Actuarial Principles Underlying A Sound Method for Partially Funded Social Security Retirement Systems
Dr. Kyle L Grazier – Patterns of Health Services Use in an Employed Population with Increasing Employee Premium Sharing
Dr. Mary Hardy, Ishmael Sharara, Dr. David Saunders – A Study of International Solvency Regimes
Dr. Andreas Milidonis – An Empirical Investigation of CDS spreads using a Regime Switching Default Risk Model
Dr. Andreas Milidonis, Dr. Samuel Cox, Dr. Yijia Lin - Regime Switching Models: Applications to Mortality Modeling and Pricing
Dr. Rahul Parsa – Copula Regression
Dr. David Saunders, Dr. Mary Hardy, Dr. Claymore Marshall – Pricing and Hedging Insurance Contracts with Embedded Options
Dr. Nariankadu Shyamalkumar – On Statistical Inference of CTE
Dr. Steven Vanduffel – The Optimal Design of Structured Products
Dr. Virginia R. Young, Dr. Erhan Bayraktar – Stochastic Volatility Models in Minimizing the Probability of Lifetime Ruin
Dr. Eric Weibel – Modeling Driver Culpability in Multiple-Vehicle Collisions Using Conditional Regression
Wynn Kent Public Communication Award
Vince Amoroso, FSA, EA, FCA
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