Description: This article summarizes the 42nd Actuarial Research Conference. From Expanding Horizons, September 2007, Issue No. 37.

Description: Panelists discuss the use of predictive modeling for health insurance in underwriting, rating, case management, etc. Panelists also discuss practical issues associated with implementing predictive modeling. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 99OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation, session number 89PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Panelists discuss issues and challenges facing organizations wishing to sell insurance and financial products over the Internet. Topics include regulatory issues facing on-line marketing and sales initiatives, security of the information provided online, “bought” versus “sold” products, and receptiveness of users. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: This chapter introduces a few probability distributions that play an important role in understanding and analyzing healthcare data. While theoretical in nature, these distributions model real life if appropriately chosen. Probability distributions are mathematical representations of how statistical data behave.

Description: Full version of Smaller Consulting Firm Section, October 2004, Issue No. 6.

Description: A summary of a survey the Society of Actuaries recently conducted of health payer and provider executives to glean insights into predictive analytics trends.

Description: Since the world in which actuaries work is both expanding (through 'data science' opportunities) and contracting (since 'data scientists' are doing work formerly done by actuaries), the role of education actuaries is at a tipping point. Members of the Society who are in higher education and representatives from the business community will discuss ways in which the two worlds of business and education have worked together in the past, what can be done by each group to assist the other, and what the future may hold.

Description: Full version of Stepping Stone Newsletter, October 2005, Issue No. 20.

Description: Because The Independent Consultant is not retained on the section website indefinitely, we have created the Resource Center as a permanent home for many of the reference articles. From The Stepping Stone, October 2005, Issue No. 20.