Description: The article explores the possibility of using the emerging technology for life insurers to build a monitor system for better risk and profitability management.

Description: The article focuses on the use of predictive analytics in the development of experience studies, pros and cons of using predictive analytics versus traditional techniques, and the implications for setting assumptions and improving profitability.

Description: Health care predictive analytics varies between payers and providers as well as being a powerful tool in business decision modeling.

Description: After a decade of traditional actuarial work in health care, David Sotelo was seeking a new kind of opportunity to make an impact. He found it at Collective Health, where he works with a team of actuaries and data scientists that use analytics to streamline health insurance.

Description: A discussion about how many models can address the over fitting issues caused by too many variables by regularization, variable selection is still meaningful.

Description: Overview on current trends in medical practice impacting the LTC insurance business with a focus on dementia, risk stratification, and predictive modeling.

Description: The SOA provides information about the actuarial career path in health care and predictive analytics. Throughout 2016, we will share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and hear from top employers in healthcare analytics.

Description: How actuaries can become comfortable accessing, integrating and building complex data sets from big and broad sources of information to study the value of multidimensional drivers of change.

Description: If anyone is a paradigm of the notion that learning never stops, it’s Head of Actuarial Modeling and Experience Study for Munich RE Winnie Liu. Winnie set her sights on new horizons after almost 20 years in the insurance industry. Her interest in cutting-edge predictive analytics had been budding for years, and in 2017, she set out to earn her Predictive Analytics (PA) Certificate from the Society of Actuaries (SOA).

Description: A drive to push through the fear of failure is one of the traits that separates successful entrepreneurs from the pack. And as Nazir Valani learned early in his career, that drive is especially important when doubts come from people he looked to for encouragement.