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  • Why "Simple" Doesn't Mean "Transparent" Financial Modelling
    based on a tongue-in-cheek blog posted on Corality’s website in April. We will look at an edited version ... based on a tongue-in-cheek blog posted on Corality’s website in April. We will look at an edited version ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Jul 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices
  • Life Insurance Company Statutory Valuation
    provision for all actuarial reserves and re lated s tatement i tems which ought to be est ablishe d ... adopted a requirement that the annual s tatement must contain the s tatement of a qualif ied actuary ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jan 1987
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Qualifications; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy
  • Excel as an IT System
    “There’s poor version control in a spreadsheet—lots of different versions are floating around.” “It’s easy ... “There’s poor version control in software—lots of different versions are floating around.” “It’s easy to ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Spreadsheet Issues: Pitfalls, Best Practices, and Practical Tips
    Spreadsheet Issues: ... got a call from Denver, complaining that my annuity payment calculator spreadsheet wasn’t working any ... PowerPoint or Word if you just want to show a table of results, or a graph.

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Practice Forum
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Software
  • MEDai Response to SOA Study
    MEDai Response to SOA Study Software vendors participating in the A Comparative Analysis of ... MEDai comments on their contribution to the study's source data, and their results. Health risks;Risk ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Apr 2007
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices
  • Ingenix Comments on A Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment
    Ingenix Comments on A Comparative Analysis of Claims-Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment ... Ingenix explains their contribution to the study's source data, and raises some questions about methodolgy ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2007
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices
  • Abstractions & Working Effectively Alongside Artificial Intelligence
    language (a language whose syntax consists of 0’s and 1’s). In software development, one can identify ... the formula for a European call on an underlying S with strike K in the generalized Black-Scholes5 ...

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    • Authors: Dodzi Attimu, Bryon Robidoux
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Active Life Reserves For Individual Health Insurance
    is the point? 1. Unlike traditional life and annuity insurance reserve standards, health insurance ... somewhat subtle, has not existed for life and annuity insurance, so it is new, unfamiliar and unwelcome ...

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    • Authors: G Scott Bucher, William J Bugg, Ted Dunn, John A Maurer, Peter Thexton
    • Date: May 1986
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Experience Studies & Data>Disability; Health & Disability>Disability tables; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • How to Keep Your Spreadsheets Out of the Headlines
    spreadsheet creation and control are: • Documentation tab(s): high-level notes on purpose, in- structions on proper ... values, but no indication whether the values are in U.S. dollars or in euros, this can create a great deal ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Apr 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Software
  • A Graphical Technique For Writing Exposure Formulas
    before attainment of exact age x + 1. (0 < i < s> - - continuing five regional indexes for ur- ban ... Graduation Formula, Elias S. W. Shiu Use oj Amortization Tables to Solve Variable Annuity Problems, Richard ...

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    • Authors: William L Roach
    • Date: Mar 1978
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Modeling & Statistical Methods