Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.

Description: How insurers can build trust with the customers, particularly in the context of micro-insurance.

Description: This paper reviews state and federal regulation of investment advisers as it applies to personal actuaries and advocates action steps.

Description: Issue 38 of Actuary of the Future newsletter, November 2015

Description: The Society of Actuaries' managing director of actuarial research provided an overview of research activities including the funding behind research projects and the staff/volunteers involved with research.

Description: Discussion of Society of Actuary's efforts to provide continuing education resources on the internet

Description: This article explains how to create more maintainable models using abstractions by relating it to option, machine learning and machine intelligence models.

Description: Diagram displaying the relationships between the various annuity certain functions.

Description: Through a public relations effort launched first by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries [CIA] and then the SOA, two actuaries representing the profession capitalized on their abilities to analyze future contingent events in the 1998 baseball season’s home run race. This article describes the efforts of Mel Norton, FCIA and John Dewan, FSA to predict who would break Roger Maris’ 1961 record of 61 home runs in one season.

Description: In this paper, Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, the author examines the rapidly increasing costs of maintaining the U.S. prison system and the fiscal pressures the federal and state governments are faced with, and proposes a plan for an early prisoner release program “with a rigorous, merit-based approach that can be expected to demonstrate favorable outcomes for the general public and the released prisoner.” This plan involves “an optimized process for evaluating the perils associated with freeing candidates eligible for early release - an individualized assessment and quantification of those risks…” The article goes on to describe the costs, benefits, risks, and critical success factors. The report includes two appendices.