Description: This article discusses how small insurance companies can get into the complex equity indexed market by using alliances wherein there is one primary company and one or more secondary companies. The primary company would perform all of the functions for itself and some of the functions for the secondary companies. The companies pool assets to reach critical mass.

Description: Reworking The ABC’s of XYZ by Tom Kalmbach from Small Talk Newsletter, November 2002, Issue No. 19.

Description: Brief summary of Study Analyzing Demographic Experience of Continuing Care Retirement Community Residents. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

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: List of resources on GAAP Targeted Improvements (GTI)

Description: This article explores the use of Generalized Additive Models and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines to model nonlinear relationships in a linear response model. These models use supervised methods to determine the optimal shape of the predictors in the model. Users are provided an example use case so that they may get started right away building models to explore complex relationships in new ways.

Description: Highlights of two 2018 health events organized by the Colombian Association of Actuaries and sponsored by the Colombian Government. Seminar on Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling in Health. Seminar on Risk Management for the Health Insurers

Description: Managed care networks are important to control rising health care costs . these need to be priced appropriately to produce the right results for all stakeholders . This includes analysis of utilization and costs for both in and out of network claims . A variety of risk and administrative service options exist for entities assuming such risk .

Description: This article discusses how to handle semisupervised data. This type of data might have a large number of observations, yet a small number of labels.

Description: On behalf of The Actuarial Demography Team of CREAD (Centre for Research in Applied Economics for Development, Algiers, Algeria), Farid FLICI hosted Arpita DAS from Actuaries Without Borders (AWB) belonging to the International Association of Actuaries (IAA) to facilitate a 3 days training on "Data Science for Health & Life Insurance" for actuaries in Algiers. The training was held in CREAD's from 23th to 25th of December 2018 and was attended by actuaries and statisticians from insurance companies, public insurance regulators, social security organizations, and academia.