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  • Technology and the Actuarial Pricing Model - What Comes Next?
    FH1747:Q CASHFLOWS PER $100 AT 6 SCENARIOS The primary decomposition in ABCD (Chart 10) clearly shows ... portfolio. We’ve found, for annuities, that the best primary decomposition is not zero-coupon bonds but a synthetic ...

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    • Authors: Shane A Chalke, Thomas W Reese, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Douglas A George, Mark C Abbott
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Software
  • The Modeling Platform
    into the map. Manual items often require special care and con- sideration in effective model management ... and other indirect experience items as well as direct application of profes- sional judgment to assumptions ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Life Insurance>Policyholder behavior - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Universal life; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Technology & Applications>Software
  • System Peer Review
    contrast, system peer reviews should include a direct evaluation of the code (Figure 2). This situation ... their modeling software. Proper consideration and care should be reflected in the company’s system change ...

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    • Authors: Michael Failor
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Simulation Technology for Managing Risk
    a problem because the problem is not subject to direct experimentation. 3 Analysts are hampered in their ... the product, the suppliers of the product, the primary insurers, the reinsurers and so on—all gathered ...

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    • Authors: Lilli Segre Tossani
    • Date: Feb 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Cool Tech
    favorite open source software.” A stack includes a primary application plus all the dependencies necessary ... use it to post article titles and links. You can direct people back to your blog or to new articles on ...

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    • Authors: Matthew C Wilson
    • Date: Jul 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The Need for Speed: Achieving Maximum Run Time Performance
    is pretty advanced optimization. It took a lot of care to set up initially, but now it works well for ... Another way is to have a system of flags that direct traffic The Need for Speed: Achieving Maximum ...

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    • Authors: Philip Gold, Francis Sabatini, Alex Korogodsky
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • SOLID Object Oriented Design
    power consumption, etc., but most people don't care, and would prefer being told "I just bought a new ... of OOD. Low-level classes implement basic and primary operations, and high-level classes often encapsulate ...

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    • Authors: Andrew Chan
    • Date: Jul 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The Year 2000 Clock Is Ticking
    This hotly argued rec- ommendation will have a direct impact on the bottom line and give rise to addi- ... complacency. Corporate law typically imposes standards of care on the company’s managers and directors which could ...

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    • Authors: Mike Lombardi
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Software Tools for Asset/Liability Matching
    quite similar. MR. SHANE A. CHALKE: My company's primary business is doing product development-type consulting ... yourself in some way. What we have done is left the primary projec- tion portions, what I would call very flexible ...

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    • Authors: Clifford Angstman, Brian Bambrough, Dennis Carr, Shane A Chalke, Peter B Deakins, Sheldon Epstein, Douglas N Hawley, Alan W Sibigtroth, Roger W Smith, Steven A Smith, Dennis L Stanley, Mel Stein
    • Date: May 1987
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Tracking the Flow of Money in a Life Insurance Policy to Compute Cost Basis and Distributions
    trans- action is applied to the policy. Avoiding direct references to detailed product specifics (like ... early distributions, 1035 exchanges, or Long Term Care rider charges, for example. Form 1099-R and the ...

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    • Authors: Scott Koehler
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Public Policy; Technology & Applications>Software