Pierre Devolder is Professor of quantitative finance and actuarial sciences. He is associate editor of the ASTIN Bulletin and a member of the board of the AFIR section of the International Actuarial Association. His main research interests are pension funding, the application of stochastic processes to finance and insurance, fair valuation and solvency of insurance liabilities.

Jacques Janssen is Honorary Professor at the Solvay Business School in Brussels, Belgium. He is a member of many scientific and actuarial associations (Belgium, France, and Switzerland) and chairman of the International ASMDA Steering Committee. His research interests include stochastic processes, financial and actuarial mathematics, operations research and data mining.

Raimondo Manca is Professor of mathematical methods applied to economics, finance and actuarial science. He is associate editor of the journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. His main research interests are multidimensional linear algebra, computational probability, the application of stochastic processes to economics, finance and insurance and simulation models.