Description: This article discusses the reliance the banking industry placed on sophisticated mathematical models.

Description: Insurance carriers throughout Canada and the United States are navigating an influx of technology companies that seek to improve the customer experience, streamline operations to reduce costs and/or increase direct to consumer sales opportunities. Representatives from two prominent technology companies, Limelight Health (a group market solution) and dacadoo (an individual market solution), join us for a look at how InsurTech companies view and approach problems in today’s insurance markets.

Description: The 2018 SOA Valuation Actuary Symposium covers a range of content relevant to the finance, health and life industries. Attend to increase your acumen on the latest topics in valuation and financial reporting.

Description: Evolve with today’s disruptive technology. Empower yourself through innovation. Elevate the actuarial profession. It all begins at the 2019 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit, where you’ll learn new techniques, examine current industry trends, and witness the technology defining the actuarial future. Embrace it all—the informative sessions, the innovative exhibits, and the unmatched networking opportunities. Embrace change today to create a stronger tomorrow for the actuarial profession.

Description: In the first part of this series, the presenters will provide the results of a recent SOA multi-country survey on mortality improvement practices of life insurance companies. In the second part of this session, they will discuss the issues and solutions related to the development of the most recent RPEC mortality improvement assumptions.

Description: This report outlines the current wellness environment, the objectives of the wellness study and provides a summary of the overall study findings. This report is supplemented by the Research Summary Report, Survey Results, and Interviews with Researchers. This document includes a summary of key findings from each of the three phases.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on problems and solutions observed by consulting firms including cash flow testing, modeling of assets and liabilities, who the valuation actuary relies upon and the software being used for valuation actuary work.

Description: This discussion focuses on actuarial reports to management. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: An introduction to the field of Complexity Science. The report includes an overview of the field’s key results, detailed instructions for building Complexity Science models, examples of working models, review of practical models applicable to the work of actuaries, a literature review, and a discussion on how actuaries can apply Complexity Science in their work.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 is a book review of Jay W. Forrester's Urban Dynamics which presents a mathematical model of a city and uses it to study the effects of various urban improvement programs.