Description: This fifth call for essays aimed to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisors, employers and other stakeholders. The goal was to meet two objectives: (1) identify retirement risks, and (2) how to better plan for and maintain a secure retirement.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.

Description: What do data, technology, offices, skills, and cultural perspectives all have in common? Significant transformation.

Description: This article introduces IT DevOps to actuaries and how it is applicable to them to improve their modeling efforts and make them more efficient.

Description: How the speed of change is accelerating and how we could react to this as a profession.

Description: The article discusses the use of R in prototyping automation procedures. It offers general pros and cons for R and walks through a specific use case, which involves scraping and summarizing data stored in Microsoft Excel.

Description: There is enormous interest by investors and business leaders in the potential for artificial intelligence technologies, often powered by predictive modeling and machine learning, to transform the way that companies do business.

Description: A basic introduction to the emerging field - insurance technology

Description: Our firm has developed the first publicly available insured lives mortality table for Cambodia using data science methods. This essay provides a brief background, our approach and the impact of our work.

Description: Using Johns Hopkins data around the COVID-19 pandemic, this article explores the interaction between selecting a metric and the different ways of visualizing it.