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Should Actuaries Get Another Job? Nassim Taleb’s work and it’s significance for actuaries
Should Actuaries Get Another Job? Nassim Taleb’s work and it’s significance for actuaries In this article, the author examines Nassim Taleb’s work and writings and discusses its relevance to the ...- Authors: Alan Mills
- Date: Mar 2010
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Enterprise Risk Management; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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Author's response to Comments on His Paper The Case for Stochastic Present Values
Author's response to Comments on His Paper The Case for Stochastic Present Values Author response to Eric Friedman’s comments on ‘The Case for Stochastic Present Values,” by Dimitry ...- Authors: Dimitry D Mindlin
- Date: Jun 2010
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods; Pensions & Retirement>Pension finance; Pensions & Retirement>Public sector plans
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Actuaries: Do We Know Our Limits?
Actuaries: Do We Know Our Limits? Given the limits of classical actuarial modeling and forecasting techniques, this newsletter contains articles discussing several ways to supplement your ...- Authors: David Snell
- Date: Jan 2012
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell Book review of: Social Science from the Bottom Up, by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell ...- Authors: Ben Wolzenski
- Date: Jul 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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What does ERM mean for Health Practitioners?
What does ERM mean for Health Practitioners? In this article, the author discusses the considerations and advantages of implementing an integrated enterprise risk management program for a health ...- Authors: Max Rudolph
- Date: Feb 2010
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Relationship Management>Staff management and motivation; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Economics>Health economics; Enterprise Risk Management; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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What Machine Learning Can Do for You
What Machine Learning Can Do for You While many know that machine learning is a big deal and even have a general idea of what it is, many do not know what machine learning can do for them. As an ...- Authors: David Romoff
- Date: Feb 2022
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Analytics>Modeling techniques
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Challenging Old Paradigms—What Are You Going to Do?
Challenging Old Paradigms—What Are You Going to Do? The main focus of this article revolves around pension plans and their funding levels. ;; Retirement plans 4294992058 7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM ...- Authors: Donald Krouse
- Date: Jul 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Pensions & Retirement
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Judgmental Forecasting in Determining Policyholder Behavior Assumptions
Judgmental Forecasting in Determining Policyholder Behavior Assumptions The author explains how he used judgmental forecasting techniques to develop a dynamic lapse assumption. He defines the ...- Authors: L Doug King
- Date: Jul 2011
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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“One of the Best Kept Secrets of the SOA”
“One of the Best Kept Secrets of the SOA” Description of the vast variety of predictive analytics topics covered by the Forecasting & Futurism section and introduction to the July 2015 issue ...- Authors: David Snell
- Date: Jul 2015
- Competency: Communication>Persuasive communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis
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Health Actuaries and the Short-term Prediction Problem
Health Actuaries and the Short-term Prediction Problem This article discusses challenges that short-term predictions have on actuaries' reputations, both as individuals and as a profession, ...- Date: May 2012
- Competency: Communication>Oral communication; Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Leadership>Influence; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Relationship Management>Relationships and trust; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing