Description: The future holds many changes. We've already dealt with major changes over the last few decades. This article goes through tips to embrace change effectively.

Description: The abstract for a paper talks about the risks of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Description: Editorial overview and issue introduction

Description: Review of an excellent new guide to passing actuarial exams. It was written by Roy Ju, who became an FSA while still a Junior in university.

Description: This article discusses using Excel to calculate internal rate of return IRR and the potential complications associated with the task.

Description: Looking for volunteer organizations to help Academy test new modeling techniques for PBR.

Description: This article shows how to deal with very large CSV files and the R programming language.

Description: Reviews different software and/or language choices for data visualization based on 6 dimensions. Number 4 out of a series of 5 articles on data visualization.

Description: This paper applies GPUs and deep learning to achieve orders of magnitude performance improvement in the valuation of large portfolios of variable annuities.

Description: In this continuation of our July 2013 article we explore an algorithm for evaluating Hidden Markov Models in detail. A preferred method in speech recognition technology, Hidden Markov Models are a promising technique when dealing with data you suspect may be driven by a change in a unobservable state. The example in the article is provided in an Excel workbook for the reader to follow along with.