Description: Article on how new technology can help streamline contracting, licensing and new business workflow processes.

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

Description: The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative. Professionally programmed, this new tool facilitates the work of international actuaries.

Description: Provides useful references for learning and using Visual Basic NET.

Description: This article explores the possibility of using machine learning to improve, or potentially rewrite, actuarial code within actuarial software.

Description: Possible usage of tools that can automate time consuming processes, and lead to a different team structure and organization for predictive analytics team.

Description: This article discusses the shortfalls present in most retirement planning software. Some of these come from the design of the software and some from unsophisticated use of it. In any case, the resources needed for retirement are often understated.

Description: Summarizing the session "How to Keep Your Spreadsheets Out of the Headlines", on preventing spreadsheet error, from the 2015 SOA Annual Meeting. Presenters were Alex Cires, Sandra To, and Mary Pat Campbell.

Description: Provides a summary of key points from the ERISA Advisory Council Report on Outsourcing (2014). The report provides interesting and important perspectives and the article encourages the reader to look at the report and consider the issues raised.

Description: This software was developed as a pedagogical tool to help demonstrate the impact of a change in retirement income strategy on potential financial outcomes. A user can consider various strategies of longevity and asset performance risk transferal and observe the resulting changes on a range of modeled outcomes. The overall purpose is to provide an understanding of the trade–offs of risk and reward in retirement strategies. The software is not intended as a comprehensive retirement planning tool and should not be used, under any situation, for this purpose.