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Based on a loss function approach, this comprehensive reference reviews the most recent advances in financial and actuarial modeling, providing a strong statistical background for advanced methods in pension plan structuring, risk estimation, and modeling of investment and options pricing. An authoritative tool supplying every conceptual model and technique required by the modern financial investigator, Financial and Actuarial Statistics offers an analysis of American options models, mortality adjustment factors for increased risk individuals, time trend regression adjustments for mortality tables, and simulation approaches for stochastic models.