Description: This research report educates the actuarial community about the various shades of the flood risk as well as the state of the art in quantitative flood risk modeling.

Description: This report is a technical paper on a Predictive Analytics Framework and Reusable Workflow for Experience Analysis in actuarial studies. It covers data analysis, machine learning models, methodologies, and model interpretation techniques.

Description: There is value in a framework that allows a smooth transition from a qualitative assessment to a quantitative analysis as entities mature in their understanding of climate risk. In this report, a case study on climate change impact on home prices is used to illustrate a Bayesian network iterative approach to building a model for scenario analysis.

Description: This report provides insights into statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity in the context of insurance industry disparities. It discusses various imputation techniques, performance metrics, and the evolution of methods over time. The aim is to address the lack of consistent data collection on race and ethnicity in insurance datasets.

Description: Even in published scientific research, we find fraudulent data. What is an actuary to do? Let's consider our actuarial principles and standards of practice to question our data quality and truthfulness. In specific, the article addresses ASOP 56 on Modeling and considerations of model risk as well as ASOP 23 on Data Quality. Recent examples are given from a Harvard research fraud controversy as well as questionable sumo statistics.

Description: Article describing content and key takeaways from experience completing the SOA PA Certificate

Description: The document is a report on U.S. Population Mortality Observations updated with 2022 experience by R. Jerome Holman, FSA, MAAA. It covers mortality trends, analyses by factors like sex, age group, and cause of death, and includes methodological details for the data presented.

Description: This abstract describes a study in which a goal programming model is constructed for analysis of a non-life insurance sector.

Description: For actuarial projections to serve as the management tools that they are intended to be, the persons charged with making those projections need to consider whether the projection is sufficiently sophisticated so that it does not miss major items.It is important to consider the tax effect. This article covers several of the major tax issues that should be considered in any actuarial projection.