Description: A table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled An Analysis of Risk Management Terminology - Your guide to speaking ERM with different industries.

Description: This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology.

Description: A discussion of the effective dates and statutory reserves cap for variable annuities under Actuarial Guideline 43.

Description: LDTI’s introduction has forced many insurers to examine their existing operations and technologies. They must determine how to optimize compliance efforts while balancing data, analytics and system modernization considerations to achieve maximum value. This article will examine the four key facets—the data, technology, processes, and people—essential to any successful LDTI exercise. It will also touch on the various approaches for tackling LDTI and how a modernization mindset can help insurers realize much greater transformation for the business.

Description: Feature article that contends in order for actuaries to thrive, technology needs to be central to company strategy and actuaries should view coding as a core competency—equal to or more important than other “traditional” skills.

Description: This article provides a brief overview of the current state of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) as they apply to actuarial science, including discussion around the integration of actuarial judgment with ML and AI. It concludes with an example of explainable ML through a python tool known as SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations), which is able to explain the key drivers behind individual ML or AI predictions.

Description: This article discusses risk transfer and how difficult it is to define and describe. For actuaries, the challenge is to develop an analytical framework under which the presence of insurance risk can be identified and assessed.

Description: Life Reinsurance Data from the Munich American Survey by James L. Sweeney and David M. Bruggeman Reinsurance Section News, August 1998, Issue No. 44.

Description: Announcement of the ARC Graduate Student winners from the 2010 conference at Simon Fraser University.

Description: Discussion on the issue's contents.