Description: Actuaries have the opportunity to transform to a new role that utilizes predictive analytics and new data sources such as epigenetics, to better humankind.

Description: Panel discussion from the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs covering developments in Education and Examination. Topics discussed included: 1. Goals, purposes and objectives of actuarial education in general, and the Society's Education and Examination E & E program in particular. 2. Critique of the current E & E system. 3. Plans for and future directions of actuarial education, including the role of the academic community.

Description: This session 84I of the 2001 SAO Annual Meeting in New Orleans is about how many insurers are migrating toward Web-based interactive underwriting systems in order to economize and streamline the underwriting process. This requires some radically different techniques well beyond the time-honored traditional approaches. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol 27, No. 3

Description: A good primer on how clinical studies should be conducted and how statistics are used and misused to influence us.

Description: Editorial for the May 2019 issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism newsletter.

Description: Summary of the first annual predictive analytics (PA) symposium specifically targeted to help actuaries get into PA & to take it to the next level of expertise.

Description: Summary of the issue, with emphasis on common sense and accuracy rather than blind precision. Also describes two F&F contests.

Description: Why should actuaries care about non-quantitative considerations? We are the masters of accurate calculations, and our models should be based solely upon logic … right? Wrong! The touchy-feely holistic, irrational factors encountered so often in the real world, can wreak havoc upon a model that considers only rational logic. Our 2016 presidential election was a dramatic wake-up call to statisticians and actuaries that numbers alone are not always the determining factors in economic outcomes. Learn why this is true, and how you can adapt your models to better represent the real world, and gain competitive advantage.

Description: Most courses in Excel, Word, PowerPoint or other Microsoft Office products stop just short of teaching you the highly productive things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications VBA, the powerful language that comes free with your purchase of Microsoft Office. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Description: A summary of how the Forecasting and Futurism Section is networking with other SOA sections and with external organizations to collaborate on various projects. Also highlights new events and projects happening on the forecasting and futurism front.