Description: This column highlights the articles contained in the May 2010 issue of The Independent Consultant.

Description: The Chair of the newly formed Modeling Section describes the many different meanings and usages of the word model and various types of models that actuaries may work with. This in turn suggests many possible areas of activity for the new Section of the SOA in sponsoring and delivering professional development to Section members.

Description: Editorial and issue introduction

Description: Column describing the events of a recent Product Development Symposium 2009.

Description: Carol McCall led three teams – predictive analytics, health economics and outcomes research, and personalized medicine. The “river running through them” was that they all leveraged data. Her predictive analytics team eventually built a broad portfolio of models with some of them having a significant impact on Humana’s top and bottom lines.

Description: The SOA provides information about the actuarial career path in health care and predictive analytics. Throughout 2016, we will share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and hear from top employers in healthcare analytics.

Description: The 2016 Professionalism Ready-to-Go Kit is designed so that an experienced facilitator can use the materials to lead a session on professionalism. It is intended for actuaries at all levels of actuarial experience. The program is portable so it can be delivered anywhere (on the road). This Ready-to-Go Kit uses a case study to illustrate professionalism scenarios and to promote small and large group discussions.

Description: This research illustrates many things we may learn from other actuaries around the world in designing a valuation framework, things we can do as well as things we want to avoid. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: Find more information about Actuarial System Implications of VM-20.