Mr. North said he chose New York's actuarial method because it was known to be a good one for building pension assets quickly.

It also uses an actuarial method that makes its pension fund look fully funded at all times.

Insurers use actuarial methods to calculate appropriate premiums, which is similar to calculating gambling odds.

Lease payments are analysed between capital and interest using the actuarial method.

Typically an actuary (or actuaries) with both pension and health experience must perform the calculations following generally accepted actuarial methods.

Certain aspects of the actuarial methods for discounting pension funds have come under criticism from modern financial economics.

Survival curves were analysed using the actuarial method of Mantel-Haenzel.

Actuaries and accountants following the deliberations say board members were surprised at the big difference between actuarial methods and the accounting rules.

Dozens of actuarial methods for tracking pension funds have been created over the past century.

There are other actuarial methods and accounting methods for dealing with pension contributions, health questions and so on.