Description: Comments from the departing chairperson of the Technology Section. Highlights and initiatives of the current and coming year are discussed.

Description: This article is the second in a four-part series about eliminating the confusion with using data terminology. Part one discussed data governance. This second part will discuss data analysis and database management.

Description: A call for articles for the Technology Section’s newsletter CompAct.

Description: Summary of methods and standards to use to achieve an efficient, maintainable model

Description: Read the October 2017 issue of CompAct, published by the Technology Section.

Description: Describes different ways to display a distribution of numerical results.

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

Description: A description of how IoT can benefit life insurance companies.

Description: Producing a crystal-clear balance roll-forward on time, obtaining a fresh model output the first time or providing model results for your business partners with a tight turnaround all depend on one thing: how fast the model engine runs. Authors explored various reasons behind significant computational power consumption, and discussed different ways to speed the computational process such as in-force population compression, model use case consolidation, code simplification and streamlining, and infrastructure automation, etc.

Description: Today, actuarial modeling software requires blistering calculation speed to cope with the ever-increasing complexity of products and reporting bases, particularly deriving from risk management requirements and stochastic analysis.