Description: The session will talk about the basic knowledge of GLM model that is relevant for insurance professionals. It will consist of explaining the concept, issues, tools and applications especially from insurance industry perspective. The session will also talk about how actuaries can benefit from predictive analytics. Advanced business analytics provides employers with insightful decision making and affords the opportunity to assess a marketplace from a totally new perspective. In this session, I will share some modelling techniques used in general insurance company for reference.

Description: Data analytics is changing insurance industry and will fundamentally change how we run insurance business. Actuaries could and should be on top of it and lead the change. This practical session would provide a technical overview about GLM and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in life insurance. The session would also focus on case-studies across different functional areas like pricing, fraud detection, underwriting and product development.

Description: Single spreadsheet for slides 21, 23, and 24 of the presentation for Session #6, SOP 05, Internal Replacement Transactions, Initial DAC Projection, presented at the 2007 Advanced GAAP Seminar in New York, NY.

Description: This presentation shows how the the linear model is derived assuming that the force increases linearly over the year.

Description: Presentation from SOA Annual Meeting.

Description: Transcript of a round table discussion on Housing in Retirement.

Description: This presentation from the Actuarial Society of Greater New York's November 2011 meeting provides an overview of the Society of Actuaries' research on post-retirement needs and risks.

Description: Responds to questions received during the webcast with regards to modeling long term medical trends for valuation purposes. Questions cover testing the model against publicly traded companies, the calculation of growth rate in the model, the income multiplier as the population ages, model relevance to Canada, factoring in of extra disease burdens, exclusion of aging in the model, and the effect of the globalization of health care.

Description: A Post Retirement Needs and Risks presentation originally given to a local actuarial club, but is suitable for a wide variety of venues.