Description: Issue Introduction and editorial on how PAF tools and techniques can ease the angst of competing in the financial risk arena.

Description: Feature article discussing the difficult situation of actuarial forecasting with little or no date.

Description: Description of the vast variety of predictive analytics topics covered by the Forecasting & Futurism section and introduction to the July 2015 issue of the newsletter.

Description: A discussion on how the look of charts and graphs can affect comprehension of data.

Description: Editorial for the May 2019 issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism newsletter.

Description: A Delphi Research Study of Long-Term Care Financing Solutions." Two members of the Project Oversight Group discuss the reasons for the study and the Delphi method and summarize the results of the study.

Description: Neural networks have fallen only to rise again twice. The latest incarnation borrows much from the past but adds elements to support deep learning. This article demonstrates the state of the art in deep neural network programming.

Description: History of Big Data, and approaches to cope with it. The author suggests that actuaries have been using similar methods for a long time; but need to get up to speed on the newer terms and variations.

Description: In Complexity: A Guided Tour, readers are given a short history lesson on the roots of dynamical systems theory, chaos and prediction.

Description: This article explores a potential alternative to the more typical regression-based specification of risk adjustment models. We demonstrate a proof of concept that a nearest-neighbors approach may hold some promise in certain applications of health-based risk adjustment.