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  • An Insurance Company for the 21st Century: A Thought Experiment
    An Insurance Company for the 21st Century: A Thought Experiment This article takes the reader on ... the potential benefits to consumers and the company’s stakeholders. Predictive modeling;Analytics and ...

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    • Authors: Jeffrey Robert Huddleston, Benjamin Smith
    • Date: Jul 2016
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • Shiny: Another Step Forward in Data Democratization
    Step Forward in Data Democratization By Eileen S. Burns RSTUDIO AND SHINY Years ago, RStudio gave ... relative frequency of various keywords; and a table to allow sorting, filtering to a single author ...

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    • Authors: Eileen Sheila Burns
    • Date: Apr 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • LTC Population Management: Pursuing Healthful Strategies
    Robert Eaton and Missy Gordon More people in the U.S. will need long-term care (LTC) services in the coming ... for other products such as group life and/or annuity combination products that may have had limited ...

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    • Authors: Robert Eaton, Missy Gordon
    • Date: Nov 2020
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
    • Topics: Long-term Care; Predictive Analytics; Long-term Care>Claims - Long-term Care
  • Calibrating Risk Score Model with Partial Credibility
    “offset” variable that represented the original model’s risk score prediction. In a standard linear regression ... The specific error metrics are presented in the table below: Model Description Error Metric on Next Year ...
    • Authors: Sheamus Parkes, Brad Armstrong
    • Date: Oct 2015
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Predictive Analytics
  • Proactively Managing Life Insurance Risks
    situation for life (mortality) and health products, it does pose a challenge for annuity (longevity) products ... products. Using payout annuity as an example, if the real- time tracking and data analytics tells an ...

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    • Authors: Feng Sun, Amy Tran
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Risk Management
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance; Predictive Analytics
  • Case 3: Improving LTC Projections with Predictive Analytics
    (HC), and assisted living facility (ALF). Each table varied by gender as well as by lifetime and non-lifetime ... 54.3 MAE 6.5 5.5 5.2 The key takeaway from this table is that the GBM assump- tion produced similar results ...

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    • Authors: Missy Gordon, Joseph Long
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Long-term care - Experience Studies & Data; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Predictive Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Actuarial Profession
    Artificial Intelligence and the Actuarial Profession Feature article discussing the ways artificial ... helped another insurer with correcting a mortality table using 10 times more variables than a typical ...

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    • Authors: Sarah Abigail
    • Date: Jun 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • The First SOA Annual Predictive Analytics Symposium
    near the top of most lists for the best job in the U.S. We enjoy a profession that offers high wages, pleasant ... Annual Meeting, the Health Meeting, Life and Annuity Symposium, Valuation Actuaries Meeting or any ...

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    • Authors: David Snell
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • All About Them Curves: Ordered Lorenz Curves and Lift Curves
    outcome (coming from either a manual rate, mortality table or any other type of predictive model), the ... array of model validation metrics in a single table to compare them simultaneously. What are lift ...

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    • Authors: Michael Niemerg
    • Date: Jun 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics
  • Back When I Was an Actuary ...
    skill sets. If all you do is assimilate data on mortality and morbidity, or reserve needs, and determine ... small target for replacement versus over a million U.S. doctors7 and even more lawyers.8 But it is time ...

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    • Authors: David L. Snell
    • Date: Aug 2019
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Analytics>Programming languages & tools