Description: Book review of The Mathematical Sciences, A Collection of 22 Essays, by the National Research Council's Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 is a recap of the LOMA Systems Forum held in New York, March 15-17, 1971.

Description: The second of three articles exploring the new technology offered by Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Assuratech, Inc. Describes the development of the applied complex adaptive systems technology behind Assuratech’s highly sophisticated program that uses simulation and data mining techniques for accurate, reliable versatile risk modeling.

Description: Discusses various quick fixes for Y2K computer issue.

Description: Author conducts her own informal survey to see how quickly the services could deliver rate quotes and how much the quoted rates would vary.

Description: When setting reserves, multiple methods are often used in the creation of the reserve estimate. Judgment is warranted to combine these different estimates into a final recommendation. This paper describes two techniques that can be used to combine these estimates that may result in better accuracy and lower variance.

Description: Overview of evolving industry trends and examples of how life insurers in Canada are innovating.

Description: Identifying and submitting all appropriate ICD-9 diagnosis codes to CMS will result in a higher risk score for the member and increased payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Milliman's HCC prevalence study illustrates the significant variations in HCC prevalence rates by age/gender, geography, and population type and will assist plans in benchmarking the effectiveness of their own diagnosis code capture efforts.

Description: Why small insurance companies should act now to enhance their reporting and analytical capabilities -How to start -Critical factors of success

Description: Introduces new co-editor Eddie Smith and includes letters to the editor.