Description: Acknowledgments, Copyright, and Title Page. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis: Acknowledgments, M-HB97-1.

Description: Paper on the impact of investment advice regulations on personal actuaries.

Description: Much of enterprise risk management has its roots in portfolio management and corporate finance. The concepts of trading off risk and return and benefits of diversification are well understood and articulated in both the actuarial and economics fields, so I don’t believe there are significant knowledge gaps preventing actuaries from contributing to the field. In fact, actuaries may have an advantage in many situations where a large part of a firm’s overall risk arises from pension activities or other more typical actuarial risks.

Description: Column from SOA president discussing opportunities for members of the SOA.

Description: This is a short paper on the importance of keeping existing clients in addition to bringing in new clients.

Description: The chairperson for the marketing and distribution section discusses the section welcome call and outline future topics and themes for the year head.

Description: Career changes typically follow a major milestone—a promotion, a job offer, a new degree, maybe a cross-country move. For Patrick Getzen, exposure to some new perspectives ignited a shift.

Description: Lillian Dittrick’s strategic analytics team at UnityPoint Health® has developed an application to automatically cull unstructured doctors’ notes in electronic medical records. Dittrick’s team is part of a strategic analytics department that did not exist three years ago. UnityPoint Health®, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, has assembled a team of people who use advanced analytics to build more complete patient risk stratification models by mining claims, clinical and social determinant data in new ways.

Description: This article is about non-traditional actuarial opportunities. From The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 9