Description: Help readers to focus on self wisdom.

Description: This article includes a description of robotic process automation as it relates to actuarial departments. Robotic process automation is becoming more prevalent in actuarial departments as different regulatory changes cause the processes to be more complex. As robotic process automation takes over more jobs, actuaries will have to enhance and evolve their skillsets to better complement the new tools. This article provides an introduction for actuaries to inform them what they should expect, and how they can adapt to these changes.

Description: Decentralized insurance alternatives is a rapidly expanding sector of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), an emerging and growing financial ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. The purpose of this report is to review and discuss the business models and operating designs of decentralized insurance alternatives, which may have significant implications for traditional insurance businesses, as well as the actuarial profession.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused some health care services to shift away from in-person transactions to a digital form, including telehealth, e-mails, remote patient monitoring and other forms of communication. If sustained, numerous effects and counter-effects both in the cost and quality of care as well as long-term outcomes for patient health may emerge.

Description: Introduces new co-editor Eddie Smith and includes letters to the editor.

Description: Discusses the benefits of using the Instapaper application to manage and retrieve web articles.

Description: Discusses the section’s LinkedIn group and the contents of the January issue of the newsletter.

Description: This article discusses the powerful but yet infrequently used OFFSET function in Excel.

Description: This article discusses the changes occurring in the illustrations systems market.

Description: This is a letter from the editor. This issue completes his first year as editor.