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: Machine learning models are not black-boxes; these models can easily be interpreted using tools like SHAP, LIME and Anchor. These tools can facilitate the understanding of the model and the business problem. We can used these tools to build better models and communicate how predictions are generated. This article demonstrates their use in a mortality model.

Description: This article is about how to start a career in the technology field.

Description: This is the first of two articles discussing technologies used to control data. this article covers data management strategies.

Description: Editorial describing issue’s contents.

Description: First part of a four-part series about clarifying data terminology.

Description: This article is a brief overview of what digital health is, how it is regulated, and who some of the big unicorns are.

Description: Read the April 2019 issue of CompAct, published by the Technology Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: CMS provides ACOs with monthly claims data for members, including their medical visits and ACO program eligibility. This data can be divided into Membership and Claims tables through the ETL process. However, when calculating PMPY at specific levels of detail using these tables, issues arise due to unrelated dimensions, leading to inaccurate and understated results. This article presents a solution to this problem by utilizing Tableau's data blending capabilities.

Description: Read the October 2018 issue of CompAct published by the Technology Section.