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

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

Description: This paper presents a parsimonious 11-parameter model that explains the pattern of mortality for the female and male mortality rates of the 1975–80 Select and Ultimate Basic Tables. This parametric model is useful because it can predict the select mortality rates beyond the 15-year select period and because it can predict the select rates for issue ages greater than 70 years old. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the December 2018 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Applying behavioral-science and shared-value principles to insurance is a win-win proposition for both insurers and clients.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: In this paper, the author studies the ‘applications of the integer functions, ceiling and floor, to life contingencies. Various actuarial formulas are derived by applying a theorem of the mean value type for integrals and uniform distribution of deaths assumptions.’ Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982 Volume 34.