Description: Building a strong banking relationship can spell the difference between success and failure in creating a solid business and in having the flexibility to manage and guide it no matter what the business climate throws your way. Consider these guidelines to insure that communication with your banker is first-rate.

Description: In this article the chair of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section describes what makes this section different from others and how that works to the section’s advantage. The author also shares his principles for guiding the section’s actions.

Description: The Shiny web application framework by RStudio has become a popular way for data scientists working in R to create interactive data analytics. When the developer is ready to share their application with others, internally or externally, there are a number alternatives and factors to consider. This talk presents the main Shiny application hosting alternatives and considers their advantages and disadvantages. In addition, the steps necessary to deploy an application on Shiny Server, both on-prem and in the cloud using Microsoft Azure as an example, are described.

Description: The August/September 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: A brief description of the current activities of the Entrepreneurial Actuarial Section [EAS]. Webcasts and a call for papers are described.

Description: Communicating value vs. service in order to gain clientale.

Description: This article is about how times are changing and we must adapt and keep up as individuals, professionals, and companies

Description: Article offers ideas on how actuaries in small firms can address theri litigation risk in rational, cost-effective ways.

Description: Editor’s Column by Ian Duncan from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, June 2003, Issue No. 2.

Description: This article notes how “we can do much more at the company, industry and social level by combining what we know with other actuaries as well as members of other disciplines.” This will become easier due to social technologies that allow individuals to collaborate regardless of conventional barriers. The author asks “how do we use these new social technologies to leverage our existing actuarial skill set data in a way that creates value for customers and clients?”