Description: The chairperson reviewed the accomplishments from the prior year and provided a preview of upcoming events.

Description: Feature article that supports the statement that actuaries who are competent coders will differentiate both themselves and the companies they work for. Coding ability will be useful no matter what tools are utilized every day and all of those tools and communities contribute to moving actuarial processes out of the “Spreadsheet Age.”

Description: On July 17, FASB announced a deferral of the compliance deadline for the new Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) guidance: “a one year deferral for larger SEC filers and a two or three year deferral for all other entities.” This article highlights the opportunity for companies striving to comply to modernize in light of this deferral, and it provides a few specific suggestions to companies who pursue this path.

Description: This article stresses the importance of treating your IT network infrastructure as an indispensable utility as is required to run your email, Internet access, printing needs and a host of other mission-critical applications that you cannot function properly without.

Description: Cloud computing is a major disruptor to nearly all software products, and actuarial software is no different. Insurers need to start thinking about how they are going to work with their venders to move to the next level of actuarial infrastructure.

Description: A story of one actuary's experience using technology over the past 25 years.

Description: This article introduces IT DevOps to actuaries and how it is applicable to them to improve their modeling efforts and make them more efficient.

Description: Editors' column for the April 2019 issue of CompAct.

Description: Feature article describing what author thinks it will take for a life insurance company to be successful in the year 2020.

Description: Feature article discussing the benefits of using spreadsheet controls.