Description: Book review of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen.

Description: The Stepping Stone issue 60, November 2015

Description: The April 2016 Issue of The Modeling Platform

Description: This paper discusses the need for actuarial judgment to be used in conjunction with statistical analysis in the calculation of incurred but not reported IBNR claim reserves.

Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: How insurers can build trust with the customers, particularly in the context of micro-insurance.

Description: Issue 38 of Actuary of the Future newsletter, November 2015

Description: This article explains how to create more maintainable models using abstractions by relating it to option, machine learning and machine intelligence models.