Description: After a decade of traditional actuarial work in health care, David Sotelo was seeking a new kind of opportunity to make an impact. He found it at Collective Health, where he works with a team of actuaries and data scientists that use analytics to streamline health insurance.

Description: The career path of a former actuarial consultant who is now executive vice president of marketing and strategic development for CVS Caremark.

Description: View 2017 Kaggle Involvement Program Results.

Description: Twenty years ago Steve Tutewohl’s clients were taking bold risks with limited information, little analytical support and hardly any data. As an actuary working on the provider side, Tutewohl started out in a traditional role in an untraditional environment. In his early years at Valence Health he was focused on educating, informing and bringing knowledge to providers so they could level the playing field with payers when they were negotiating and managing risks. Today Tutewohl’s clients have “data that is above and beyond what the payer has.”

Description: This article discusses the actuarial profession and its role and needed skill set development going forward in meeting the needs of businesses for risk management and capital management

Description: Article Retirement To Chaos by Smith in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: A drive to push through the fear of failure is one of the traits that separates successful entrepreneurs from the pack. And as Nazir Valani learned early in his career, that drive is especially important when doubts come from people he looked to for encouragement.

Description: Meet Dorothy Andrews. As a consulting actuary at Merlinos & Associates, Dorothy leverages her knowledge in statistical and data analytics, which she acquired through a variety of diverse experiences.

Description: The SOA provides information about the actuarial career path in health care and predictive analytics. Throughout 2016, we will share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and hear from top employers in healthcare analytics.

Description: Data is everywhere. Health care generates as much as 30% of the world’s data, and new technologies are changing how life insurers analyze consumer information. Actuaries are business-savvy problem solvers. They understand how to leverage the latest technologies and techniques to turn data into actionable insights and solutions for businesses and can communicate those findings to multiple audiences. SOA-credentialed actuaries use predictive analytics to inform organizational and business strategies, with efforts such as identifying chronic conditions in their early stage or determining stress levels through sweat patterns.