Description: “It’s interesting to note that, given the past year’s reversal of fortunes in the stock markets, all the media rap about heated inquiries around back-dating options has stopped.”

Description: Summary of the modeling-related sessions from some of the major 2018 Society of Actuaries (SOA) meetings: Life & Annuity Symposium, Health Meeting and the Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This article discusses how to get data into and out of R, an open source language for statistical computing.

Description: This article gives a brief overview of ways to extend clustering analysis beyond basic methods such a k-means

Description: A brief introduction to a new SOA research on liability-driven investment benchmark model.

Description: Overview of the issue.

Description: In this article about interest rate models, the author develops an empirical description of the term “interest rate regime,” and looks at the relationship between changes in yield curves and moving to a new interest rate regime.

Description: This paper proposes using a classic actuarial framework of frequency and severity, modified to address the unique challenge of XPL.

Description: Article discussing how geospatial imagery and high-resolution image technology are transforming property insurance.