Jul 31, 2017
This podcast discusses the study sponsored by the Product Development Section, International Section, Smaller Insurance Company Section, and the Committee for Life Insurance Research. This study examines global product development (PD) practices of life insurance and annuity companies. Performed by LIMRA and RGA, this...
Jul 24, 2017
This podcast discusses the study, Parameter Uncertainty, sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), and the Society of Actuaries' (SOA) Joint Risk Management Section and the Joint Risk Management Research Committee. Authored by a Hartman Analytics team of Brian Hartman,...
Jul 18, 2017
Listen in as Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA, interviews Shea Parkes, FSA, MAAA about Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs). Although GBMs share many characteristics with Random Forests, they can often provide better performance at the cost of somewhat higher complexity. This discussion covers topics including underlying theory,...
Jul 17, 2017
In this first installment in the series, Dale Hall, SOA Managing Director of Research discusses an overview of the Financial Wellness essays with Steve Siegel, SOA Research Actuary and Anna Rappaport, of Anna Rappaport Consulting.
Please note, this podcast was recorded via conference call, rather than our higher sound...
Jul 12, 2017
From the June 2017 Taxing Times: The IRS has consistently spoken to the doctrine of investor control through private letter ruling requested by insurers and fund managers. And within the past decade, many of those requests, and the rulings issued in response, dealt with the concern that indirect investment in...