Description: An article from the Expanding Horizons newsletter, issue 26, published in April 2003 that previews the Spring Meeting E&R sessions.

Description: This article discusses the work of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force in developing accreditation standards for university actuarial programs.

Description: A special issue of the Annals of Actuarial Science, focusing on insurance data science, was published on July 1. As explained by the editors—Katrien Antonio (KU Leuven), Christophe Dutang (Université Paris Dauphine), and Andreas Tsanakas (City, University of London)—the theme of this issue grew out of the rapid and transformative developments in the field, with the increased use of computational statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence models in insurance applications. While the special issue has been associated with the Second Insurance Data Science Conference, held in June 2019 at ETH Zurich, the published papers come from a wider and very distinguished pool of authors.

Description: Discussion of the merger between the the Actuarial Education and Research Fund and The Actuarial Foundation. The named of the merged organizations will be The Actuarial Foundation. Legally, the AERF will go out of existence, but all of its functions will be continued by the new, merged organization.

Description: Article discussing two sessions on the topic of predictive modeling (PM) at SOA meetings.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society Of Actuaries would like to announce the recipients of the 2006–2007 Ph.D. Grant Competition.