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  • Several Reasons Excel Should Not Be Your Production-Level Actuarial System
    Should actuaries continue to use Excel as their primary tool, they will be less effective in their communications ... is now in cell $E$17. It might look fine to the primary user in the moment, but the chain of data integrity ...

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    • Authors: Stephan Mathys
    • Date: Mar 2021
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Simulation Technology for Managing Risk
    a problem because the problem is not subject to direct experimentation. 3 Analysts are hampered in their ... the product, the suppliers of the product, the primary insurers, the reinsurers and so on—all gathered ...

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    • Authors: Lilli Segre Tossani
    • Date: Feb 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Cool Tech
    favorite open source software.” A stack includes a primary application plus all the dependencies necessary ... use it to post article titles and links. You can direct people back to your blog or to new articles on ...

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    • Authors: Matthew C Wilson
    • Date: Jul 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • SOLID Object Oriented Design
    power consumption, etc., but most people don't care, and would prefer being told "I just bought a new ... of OOD. Low-level classes implement basic and primary operations, and high-level classes often encapsulate ...

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    • Authors: Andrew Chan
    • Date: Jul 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Cyber-Ballistic Podiatry: A Beginner’s Guide
    Cyber-Ballistic Podiatry: A Beginner’s Guide Satirical article about different computer programming ... you’ll have so much fun doing it that you won’t care. Prolog: You tell your program you want to be shot ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
    annuities, then health products, including long term care. Our lives as actuaries con- tinue to become more ... be combined to make numbers as large as we might care to work with. Quantum computers, however, have ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The End Users Justify the Means: II—The Wrath of Numerate Decision-Makers
    VBA programming for Excel (see references). • Direct the flow and focus through the spread- sheets ... well). Any catchall error message should give direct contact information for the person who would fix ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Retirement Software: Eats Dots, Avoid Ghosts
    Retirement Software: Eats Dots, Avoid Ghosts This article discusses the shortfalls present in most ... entitled to, and at the same time they do not direct users to the Social Security admin- istration ...

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    • Authors: Hazel Witte, John A Turner
    • Date: Jun 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Technology & Applications>Software
  • R Corner
    R Corner This column discusses the use and management of data withn the computer language ... that one can store and access data within R. The primary ones that I want to discuss will be scalars, vectors ...

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    • Authors: Steven Craighead
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • System Access and Change Controls
    System Access and Change Controls Actuarial systems access and change controls are hot topics ... off in the long term. Whether achieved through direct IT departmental over- sight or more independently ...

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    • Authors: Michael Failor
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
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