Description: This article discusses facts and issues related to the selection of a stock’s price distribution.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers an alternative way of estimating distribution parameters for nonnegative random variables.

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 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.

Description: Feature article discussing how actuaries are affected by the need for maintaining controls and the use of IT resources for meeting these needs.

Description: An update on the Modeling section activities and a look back at the five years since inception

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