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Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, discusses the Pension Protection Act PPA and the related misconceptions. The PPA has removed significant legislative uncertainty around pension funding rules. But there are lots of details. This article discusses the many unresolved issues related to near-term funding decisions.

Description: This is the third in a 4-part series where Anders Larson and Shea Parkes discuss predictive analytics with high cardinality features. In this episode they focus on feature engineering via the hashing trick. The hashing trick is most applicable for extremely high cardinality, and at first glance can seem almost ridiculous. In a lot of ways, it is the same as bucketing values at random. But there are times that it is more valuable to include randomly engineered buckets than to exclude the original high cardinality feature entirely.

Description: Ideas for using calculus concepts to validate actuarial models. Focus is on reserve valuation models under PBR. Includes examples based on a simple Excel model.

Description: Community Bylaws: The SOA Board of Directors approved the Community bylaws at the March 2025 Board meeting. Learn about the Community Advisory Team, officers, committees, volunteer duties, activities, election process, finances and more. Community bylaws apply to activities within all SOA Communities.