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  • The Actuary in an Information Technology World—Planning for Project Success

    The Actuary in an Information Technology World—Planning for Project Success This article discusses the actuary's role in project management including analysis, design, implementation and ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Apr 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Business intelligence
  • Spreadsheet Check and Control: A Book Review

    Spreadsheet Check and Control: A Book Review This article reviews Spreadsheet Check and Control, a book that provides techniques to avoid errors in spreadsheets and to check existing spreadsheets ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Jul 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • The End Users Justify the Means: II—The Wrath of Numerate Decision-Makers

    The End Users Justify the Means: II—The Wrath of Numerate Decision-Makers This article discusses best practices in designing spreadsheets with the end-user in mind. Computer science; 8998 1/1/ ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Book Review—The Analysis of Insurance Earnings: An Enterprise Approach by John McGarry and Kevin Pledge

    Book Review—The Analysis of Insurance Earnings: An Enterprise Approach by John McGarry and Kevin Pledge This book is all about granularity. The authors envision a data warehouse with information ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • Letter from the Chair

    Letter from the Chair Letter from the Section chair discussing new opportunities for technology section members. Computer science; 7799 7/1/2009 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Tim A Pauza
    • Date: Jul 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Technology & Applications>Social media
  • Techniques for Taming Model Risk

    Techniques for Taming Model Risk A discussion of techniques that can help manage model risk and complexity. computer science, technology 10/15/2019 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Bill Cember, Scott Houghton, Dylan Strother
    • Date: Oct 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications
  • Actuaries are you paying attention

    Actuaries are you paying attention Global megatrends in technology are disrupting the life insurance industry. Life insurance, Business intelligence,Computer Science 5/16/2019 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Date: May 2019
    • Competency: Leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Technology & Applications
  • Solvency II – How SAS Can Ease Your Implementation Worries

    Solvency II – How SAS Can Ease Your Implementation Worries For the last 30 years the insurance industry has been bombarded with new and increasingly diverse regulations, all designed to ensure ...
    • Authors: Thorsten Hein
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct
  • Actuarial Monopoly – bringing Markov home to the family

    Actuarial Monopoly – bringing Markov home to the family In this article, rather than building financial models for project and investment analysis in his day job as an associate at Corality ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Apr 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
  • The Mystery Of The SQL Cursor

    The Mystery Of The SQL Cursor I recently had the opportunity to use an SQL cursor for a project and realized how powerful and useful it is... ; by Dan Rachlis Have you ever wondered who used an ...
    • Authors: Daniel Rachlis
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: CompAct