Description: In January 1936, William Phillips, a London actuary, presented a paper to the Institute in which he recommended a methodology to allow life insurance companies to automate their actuarial calculations. This article discusses Phillps' work in this area.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.

Description: Interest in blockchain is high among insurers and reinsurers. While it’s not universally useful the technology does merit continued closer investigation.

Description: Discussion of how to apply FinTech and IT processes and technologies to building an in house actuarial models.

Description: Discusses the use of a multi-tier Scalable Cloud Actuarial Infrastructure, SCAI, to meet capacity challenges for actuarial computing.

Description: The author, from the United Kingdom, as a member of the Institute’s working group that devised LAN, the Linear Actuarial Notation. The author notes this article is a supplement to The actuary’s ‘IAN, LAN & CAN’ article in the November 1980 issue. The article discusses this actuarial notation system, designed for use in the computer age.

Description: When setting reserves, multiple methods are often used in the creation of the reserve estimate. Judgment is warranted to combine these different estimates into a final recommendation. This paper describes two techniques that can be used to combine these estimates that may result in better accuracy and lower variance.

Description: Discusses various quick fixes for Y2K computer issue.