Description: Brief summaries of two sessions at the 2010 SOA Annual Meeting: Joint Technology and Entrepreneurial Actuaries sections' reception and The Actuarial Technology Perfect Storm.

Description: Enumerates the observed preferences of attendees at the June 2011 Southeast Actuaries Conference, SEAC, for apps, phones, and other technological appliances and applications.

Description: Chairperson’s letter discussing activities of the Technology Section.

Description: Overview of market trends impacting the group benefits space in Canada and the implications for insures as they prepare for future evolving industry dynamics.

Description: Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and AI will likely transform the insurance market and the actuarial profession. The actuarial profession is seeing changes many markets, including health and property and casualty. This article describes these trends and provides an introduction into what companies and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) are doing to adapt and capitalize on these trends.

Description: A discussion of techniques that can help manage model risk and complexity.

Description: Global megatrends in technology are disrupting the life insurance industry.

Description: Recent and pending changes in financial reporting standards and regulations such as IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements are ramping up the performance pressures on actuarial models. New infrastructure technology in the cloud is driving modeling options that may well help actuaries successfully and economically meet these challenges and unlock even greater transformational change.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that recent advances in calculating equipment make possible producing graduations much more elaborate than any done previously. The paper confines itself to the problem of graduating a single column of rates, such as an ultimate column, using a Whittaker-Henderson B graduation of the fourth order. The author provides a detailed description of the process with significant mathematical theory.