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  • Horses for Courses
    value crediting, dividend payments, or mode of care benefit maximums); • Guarantees such as minimum ... granularity and detail of calculations also has a direct relationship with the time required to complete ...

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    • Authors: Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Change management; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Value at risk - Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Underwriting Evolution
    TUBERCULOSIS Worldwide, tuberculosis is one of the primary causes of mortality. In the U.S., we are seeing ... distribution channels like worksite marketing, direct-mail marketing, telemarketing, and others will ...

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    • Authors: James Atkins, Richard Braun, Marta Kushnir
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Actuarial Software
    interaction - Interactive time-sharing permits direct, instantaneous communications between the user ... is the creation of computer models. One of the primary applications of this type of software has been ...

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    • Authors: Albert J Kleinberg, Joel Magyar, Godfrey Perrott, J Rae Jamieson
    • Date: Oct 1977
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Modeling Technologies
    commercial package completely generalized to take care of all the things that might happen in a company ... Within each segment, expenses were derived on a direct basis. Federal income taxes were calculated on ...

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    • Authors: Mark S Mahany, Thomas Nace, R Larry Warnock
    • Date: Apr 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Microsoft Windows 95: Revolutionary or Evolutionary?
    administrator. Comparisons will be made to the two primary alterna- tive 32-bit operating systems for personal ... meetings. He needs to find a salesperson to take care of this account. So he needs to review some numbers ...

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    • Authors: Michael F Davlin, Patrick A Basso, Steven Hambruch
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • American Life of New York Binds Insurance Using Expert Underwriting
    American Life of New York Binds Insurance Using Expert Underwriting This article explains how one company, American Life of New York, ... Article from: News Direct Newsletter September 2002 – Issue No. 41 ...

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    • Authors: Simon Walsh
    • Date: Sep 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: News Direct
    • Topics: Annuities; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Cyber-Ballistic Podiatry: A Beginner’s Guide
    Cyber-Ballistic Podiatry: A Beginner’s Guide Satirical article about different computer programming ... you’ll have so much fun doing it that you won’t care. Prolog: You tell your program you want to be shot ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
    annuities, then health products, including long term care. Our lives as actuaries con- tinue to become more ... be combined to make numbers as large as we might care to work with. Quantum computers, however, have ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The End Users Justify the Means: II—The Wrath of Numerate Decision-Makers
    VBA programming for Excel (see references). • Direct the flow and focus through the spread- sheets ... well). Any catchall error message should give direct contact information for the person who would fix ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Our Experiences with Agile
    Our Experiences with Agile Discusses MG-ALFA development team's transition to an ... facing; it was specific. Simply writing down this direct and honest statement did something our team hadn't ...

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    • Authors: Robert Ream, Justin Bozonier
    • Date: Oct 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software