Description: Discusses useful resources for actuaries available on the Web.

Description: Chairperson’s letter discussing activities of the Technology Section.

Description: A call for articles for the Technology Section’s newsletter CompAct.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global economy at a level never imagined. The economic fallout has been catastrophic. Record high unemployment, staggering revenue loss, bankruptcy and an uncertain future have businesses—and consumers—searching for a beacon of hope. In the quest for a lifeline, actuarial teams are quickly being thrust into the spotlight

Description: This note presents a review of calculator financial functions for the Texas Instruments BA II PLUS calculator. This note, including a number of the examples used as illustrations, is reprinted with permission from the 3rd edition of the book Mathematics of Investment and Credit, by S. Broverman. Also, several examples from SOA/CAS math of finance exams old Course 2 will be presented illustrating the use of the calculator.

Description: Editorial for the October 2019 issue of CompAct describing the issue's contents.

Description: In this article, Extraction, Transformation and Loading tools are discussed and information on what makes a tool successful.

Description: Actuarial Process Optimization is a framework for using technology to support the actuary of the future. In this article, we discuss the capabilities of new technologies and explore examples where they can be used to aid with providing strategic business direction, optimizing skillsets and use of technology, and maintaining governance, control, and risk frameworks.

Description: Discusses how to use the Dependent Multivariate Fractional Brownian Motion, or DMFBM, function in the computer language R. The function can be used for, among other things, calculating quantities such as reserve requirements for a block of variable annuities with living benefit riders.