Description: This article explores the possibility of using machine learning to improve, or potentially rewrite, actuarial code within actuarial software.

Description: This article addresses the importance of having database software that properly handles changes concerning time = Temporal Issues.

Description: This article describes the power of predictive modeling and its potential for the Life Insurance industry. It is already successfully used in the P&C industry.

Description: The author, from the United Kingdom, as a member of the Institute’s working group that devised LAN, the Linear Actuarial Notation. The author notes this article is a supplement to The actuary’s ‘IAN, LAN & CAN’ article in the November 1980 issue. The article discusses this actuarial notation system, designed for use in the computer age.

Description: This session discusses defined-contribution plans as a method for employers to manage costs. Panelists discuss product designs and strategies as well as the impact on the health insurance market and third party administration business. Included is a discussion on e-health insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 59

Description: Life Insurers have fallen behind the customer service curve and service expectations of younger customers. This article suggests changes for correcting this.

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.

Description: The future holds many changes. We've already dealt with major changes over the last few decades. This article goes through tips to embrace change effectively.