Description: This abstract describes a talk that presents recent and planned SOA Education activities.

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that provides a summary of recent activities and future plans in the Society of Actuaries’ Education system.

Description: The objective of this statement of principles is to articulate the current understanding of the significant principles that form the scientific framework underlying all areas of actuarial practice. The intended audience includes practicing actuaries, researchers and others, such as representatives of standard-setting organizations. This articulation is not immutable and should be revised if changes arise in our understanding of the key concepts and phenomena relevant to actuarial science, or if a better expression of the ideas is developed. This statement is the culmination of an effort that begin with the October 1991 draft by the SOA Committee on Actuarial Principles entitled “Principles of Actuarial Science. After incorporating numerous comments, that statement was published in Transactions of the Society of Actuaries XLIV, 1992.

Description: Full version of The Independent Consultant Newsletter, October 2006, Issue No. 12.

Description: Techniques that have gained some traction in general (property/casualty) insurance will be highlighted with a particular focus on the linear mixed model. This model adds random effects to the more commonly seen fixed effects (for example, as used in GLMs).

Description: A resource for actuarial professionals, providing a systematic approach to the application of actuarial theory to real world problems. Provides insight into how to manage financial risk within dynamic economic and social systems. It is also a required text for use in the Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice course.

Description: In this article, Ermanno Pitacco talks about this year’s meeting, held in Trieste, Italy

Description: Bring your laptop to experience this deep learning neural network tool offered free from Google.

Description: It has been a year since the SOA implement major changes to the ASA curriculum. This session will provide an update on the changes and in particular focus on what we have seen as schools update their VEE and UCAP/CAE submissions.