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  • Solvency II – How SAS Can Ease Your Implementation Worries
    Can Ease Your Implementation Worries For the last 30 years the insurance industry has been bombarded with ... insurers and reinsurers are financially stable and act responsibly... ; by Stuart Rose and Thorsten Hein ...
    • Authors: Thorsten Hein
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • The DSLR Novice Seeks to Be The Excel Artist
    The DSLR Novice Seeks to Be The Excel Artist How well do you know the features of Excel? Read this article ... it can take multiple pictures in a second. Of course, the picture quality is also outstanding. I love ...
    • Authors: Andrew Chan
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • R Corner: The CUT Function
    R Corner: The CUT Function The ability to take continuous data and convert into categories is very useful ... article provides an R function for the calculation of the credibility of mortality claims, and then separates ...
    • Authors: Steven Craighead
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Simplifying the Data Management Burden
    Simplifying the Data Management Burden Some ideas for taking the data management activities out of actuarial ... for their organization and less time performing the analytics tasks that they were originally hired to ...
    • Authors: Bob Hirsch
    • Date: May 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • End-User Computing: Solving the Problem
    End-User Computing: Solving the Problem End-user computing (EUC) applications (such as Microsoft Excel ... continue to present challenges for organizations. On the one hand, EUCs provide a great benefit by allowing ...
    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Managing the Big Data Opportunities Seminar
    Managing the Big Data Opportunities Seminar Are you looking to learn more about Big Data? Are you looking ... Data? On May 6, the Technology Section will be sponsoring a seminar the day after the Life and Annuity ...
    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2015
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • R - The right choice for analytics
    R - The right choice for analytics This article presents a description of several computer programs ... science By Kevin Pledge A key initiative the SOA undertook a couple of years ago was to review opportunities ...
    • Authors: Kevin Pledge
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Get In or Get Out Of The Way
    Get In or Get Out Of The Way This article is about the emergence of the financial modeling ... Get Out Of The Way This article is about the emergence of the financial modeling process in the actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Excel as an IT System
    published in the May 2012 edition of CompAct entitled “Spreadsheets—the Aging Friend of Actuaries.” ... We consider the reasons why IT-developed systems are considered less risky, and apply the same fundamental ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Mental Math
    consider one of the classic feats of mental calculation: how to figure out the day of the week of anyone’s ... consider one of the classic feats of mental calculation: how to figure out the day of the week of anyone’s ...
    • Authors: Paul Ramirez
    • Date: Jul 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices