A Summary Look at getAbstract An overview of the getAbstract service, which is provided for free to members of the Technology Section. By Mary Pat Campbell Professional development By Mary Pat ...

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Why Is Health Care Data So Challenging? Data is the lifeblood of the health care business, giving insight to an organization's current status and thus helping actuaries and other analysts ...

Letter From The Chair It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of sessions at actuarial meetings throughout the year and also offered several webcasts. ; By J.

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Why "Simple" Doesn't Mean "Transparent" Financial Modelling This article is based on a tongue-in-cheek blog posted on Corality’s website in April. We will look at an edited ...

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No Limits Contract-level Monte Carlo is the new normal for the insurance industry. This article demonstrates how it works in practice. ... By Osmo Jauri and Timo Penttilä Insurance;cloud ...

Beyond Excel - SharePoint Actuaries have been using spreadsheets for a long time; spreadsheets are getting more powerful with every upgrade, but our demand is even higher. ...By Andrew Chan ...

Are You Agile? Agile Project Management is an iterative development approach that is popular in software development but is increasingly being applied to project management and process ...