Description: Details of an actuary’s project to help a local nonprofit agency improve its data analysis and customer service issues.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to bring you information about the actuarial career path in life insurance and predictive analytics. We’ll continue to share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and top employers in life insurance.

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: Case study of examples of small consulting firm.

Description: This presentation is a lecture, session 57L, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The speaker provides context and general background on business intelligence [BI], including topics such as online analytical processing [OLAP], and provides some examples. Next is a basic discussion of data modeling. The speaker then reviews the technology and tools currently on the marketplace, and finally discusses implementation strategy in terms of how actuaries work with IT in this area. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: The purpose of the article is to highlight how a person or organization can excel in both a highly-competitive expert-driven environment and one where the environment is less so. One should focus on what can be done well and delegate the remaining tasks to those who are better at performing them. One should understand the environment they are operating in, how it impacts them, and how it may change through time. The principles have application to investment management, investment performance, organizational performance, business development, career progression and economics.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed the benefits of data integration, data warehousing, what OLifE is now, and what it is projected to be in the future.

Description: Read the April 2017 issue of CompAct published by the Technology Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article summarizes some of the operational considerations necessary to optimize the usefulness and impact of a predictive model, such as cross-functional support and involvement in model build, adequate training and reporting, and strategic model build.