Description: This article covers the importance of a system peer review within the systems change control process and offers suggestions for creating more robust controls.

Description: The chairperson reviewed the accomplishments from the prior year and provided a preview of upcoming events.

Description: The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative. Professionally programmed, this new tool facilitates the work of international actuaries.

Description: Shows why predictive modeling should be a necessary tool for the life actuary, identifies examples of various limitations in traditional mortality experience analyses, and also posits various predictive modeling techniques as a means of avoiding these constraints.

Description: A discussion of underwriting, pricing and reinsurance issues for Internet Distribution of life insurance products

Description: This article delves into a new line of statistical thinking of the author, that may be useful for product development actuaries. The key concept is how product design can produce products that diversify quickly, meaning that the company can be confident of a profitable product line, based on fewer sales than might be true for other designs.

Description: Describes the methodology of conditional stochastic pricing.