Description: Actuaries have the opportunity to transform to a new role that utilizes predictive analytics and new data sources such as epigenetics, to better humankind.

Description: The editor of the newsletter provides a running list of articles included in the issue highlighting such topics as the applicability genetic algorithms, the power of group dynamics, judgmental forecasting, improvement in mortality and complexity science.

Description: Editorial and issue introduction

Description: The new chairperson of the SOA's PAF section, Anders Larson, discusses the variety of ways in which the section helps actuaries learn about PAF.

Description: Note from the outgoing chairperson.

Description: Why Actuaries Should Welcome Automation

Description: The PA Symposium will be an immersive experience benefiting entry level actuaries through senior managers, and PA newbies through advanced practitioners.

Description: This article provides a highlight of all the information and resources the predictive analytics and futurism section provides to its members.

Description: Alternative sources of learning available for free or at low cost if you wish to round out your F&F education about machine learning, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and the millennia of biological advances we draw from when we use these techniques.

Description: We actuaries are aware that soft skills are important but somehow, they appear distant and difficult to sustain.