Description: An exploration of moving predictive modeling capabilities in R to real time operations.

Description: Guidelines for producing visual communications, or slides, in a time before personal computers were generally available to actuaries for development of documents.

Description: Insurance regulations are undergoing a paradigm shift in determining capital and reserves. With Solvency II in Europe and principle-based reserving in the United States, the old formula-based static approach is being replaced or supplemented by a principle-based dynamic method. This change requires enhanced modeling, stochastic simulation and sensitivity analysis, which pose challenges to insurers whose infrastructure has not been built for big computation. This paper introduces a method of building complicated models with small reusable modules and running them on a many-task computing platform to achieve high performance with simplicity. The paper presents an example of a term life insurance model built to take advantage of computer hardware for parallel computing at the task level.

Description: Chairman’s letter encouraging all actuaries to explore and consider using social media such as texting, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Description: Discusses MG-ALFA development team's transition to an Agile software-development process.

Description: This article addresses the risks associated with poor data quality and the importance of establishing effective data governance.

Description: This article discusses the emergence of multi-processor computers and the importance of acquiring parallel computing skills.

Description: This article is about why actuaries should have integral roles within nearly every IT and business intelligence company serving the insurance industry.

Description: Discusses the evolving role of technology within the actuarial profession and the current use of electronic bulletin boards on the internet.

Description: The author offers tips for e-mail etiquete.