Letter from the Editor Introduction to this edition of CompAct with highlights of the content of each contributed ... fellow members of the Society of Actuaries Technology Section to the second 2016 edition of CompAct. My ...

Letter From The Editors Actuaries are caught in a perfect storm. Since the global financial crisis erupted ... deliver more information to senior management and at the same time, they have had to comply with new guidelines/standards ...

from the Editors Welcome fellow members of the Society of Actuaries Technology Section to the third ... third 2016 edition of CompAct. We have fallen short on our goal to deliver four issues for 2016. By Mark Africa ...

insurance;Ethics;Health reserves;Health Research;Cause-of-death mortality;Disability;Presenteeism;Absenteeism;Smoking ... mortality;health care reform;actuarial standards of practice;Regression analysis;Predictive modeling;Modeling ...

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From The Chair It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of sessions ... sessions at actuarial meetings throughout the year and also offered several webcasts. ; By J. Eddie Smith ...

computing and informs actuaries how to get the most out of it.By Van Beach Modeling efficiency;PBA;PBR;stochastic ... refers to the shared use of a large, centralized pool of computing resources, accessible via the Internet ...

to convince you of the advantages of referring to table data by column name. Instead of referring to data ... using the title at the top of the column. It seems nicer to refer to “Face Amount” instead of “Column ...