Description: An overview of bias and fairness in machine learning models, as they apply to use cases in life insurance.

Description: This article discusses value at risk, VaR, and VaR modeling of the bank's portfolios that would recognize diversity and hedging. This article also covers the differences between classical VaR and the longer horizons required by the insurance industry and the feasibility of extending VaR to the insurance industry.

Description: This article is a continuance of a series on Canadian federal government statistical agencies. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4

Description: Article describing content and key takeaways from experience completing the SOA PA Certificate

Description: This article, with some humor, describes a movement known as “econophysics” of physicists modeling economic systems, including capital markets, using techniques and concepts developed in studying the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of complex systems. A version of this article appeared in The Actuary UK in August 2004. Reprinted with permission.

Description: The article discusses the investment models of The Mutual Pension Insurance Company Ilmarinen, one of the companies managing the statutory employment pension in Finland. The parts are: financial time series data management, time series analysis programs, investment simulation models and portfolio optimization models.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers the identification problem for age-period-cohort models for a class of non-trapezoidal index sets.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the method of Lagrange multipliers complete with simple examples. The author suggests that this methodology is ideally suited to the investigation of minimum variance plans. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1987 Vol. 1.

Description: The author summaries several reports from the IBM Symposium on operations research techniques and their future outlook 1968.