Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored the advantages and disadvantages of using several computer languages for actuarial work. In addition, the role of spreadsheets was discussed.

Description: The session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting analyzes statutory and GAAP financial statements, including internal rate of return IRR, return on equity ROE, embedded value, source of earnings analysis, actual versus forecast and trend analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005 Panelists discuss data standards, and their uses historically, in the present, and in the future.

Description: This second session in the series examines responses to the changing workplace landscape from outside the insurance industry. Using a question-and-answer approach with our panelists, this session focuses on practical approaches to identifying new opportunities, and ways in which traditional products and sales channels are changing to meet emerging needs. Compared with other vertical financial services, the life insurance industry has a very low level of 'touch' with its customers. Communication with customers is often limited to the annual mailing of premium invoices. Wellness platforms offer life insurers a means to increase customer engagement, building stronger brand affinity and improving persistency. Life insurers can also leverage customer data collected through the wellness platform to streamline the underwriting process for cross-sales, increasing volume and efficiency.

Description: Healthcare cost is increasing at 9.3% in Asia in 2017 and health insurance cost will eventually catch up, making healthcare unaffordable to aging populations. Inefficiency in healthcare system is a contributing factor. In this session, use cases on how AI is impacting the health insurance operations on 3 core challenges. Document processing: A lot of documents are generated in the healthcare ecosystem, medical reports, diagnosis, invoices etc. Currently most of the documents are still reviewed manually and rely heavily on users’ judgement. Customer engagement: Customers are generally under distress and feel rejected during the claim process. It is due to the time and process needed to get the information they look for, the gap between the sales and claims process, and the reimbursement amount. Claim settlements: Claim adjudication is a technical process that review the disease, treatment and policy coverage. The process is specific to disease and difficult to be generalized. Thus, the process is far from consistent and invites fraud, abuse and wastage in this area.

Description: This discussion is about how are computers being used for Underwriting of individual policies mortality and morbidity studies, including the derivation of exposures, analysis of claims, etc. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This is a panel discussion from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting discusses new technologies that have been implemented by actuaries and how technology could be implemented in actuarial operations. Topics include large data sets, PC's and networks. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Vendor representatives discuss their ALM systems, what they do and don't do, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Also includes a comparative survey of the capabilities of a number of the existing systems. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the impact of computers of all sizes and types on the environment in which actuaries conduct business from the internal to the external environments. From Record Of The Society Actuaries Volume 9, Number 3

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed the differences in the reporting of product line and source of earnings results between insurers and banks and the practical problems which exist in interpreting gain by source or product-level.