Posts From cobrien
By Tom Toce
This month we’re treated to another puzzle constructed by my long-time test solvers Bob Fink and Jerry Miccolis.
By Josh Feldman
A couple of days ago, I talked on Zoom with some actuary friends for the first time since the pandemic started; we hoped to cheer each other up with a distracting story or two.
By Sam Gutterman
In these days of a pandemic, climate change, super-high unemployment, and low interest rates, it can be difficult to maintain that future events can be represented by probability distributions. Shocks due to unanticipated disruptions and not-well-behaved trends contribute to this skepticism.
By Adam Benjamin
Illustrations by Daniel Liévano
By April S. Choi, C. Jo Erwin, Kevin Geurtsen, Julia Lerche, Yi-Ling Lin, Vanessa M. Olson, Rebecca Owen, Susan Pantely, Anthony Pistilli, Chris Schmidt, Martin E. Staehlin, Sara Teppema, and Tammy Tomczyk
By Joe Allbright, Alex Leung, Mitchell Momanyi, Rebecca Owen, and Teresa Winer Authors’ note: This piece was written before COVID-19
By John Divine
Where are we on the road to completely autonomous vehicles … and what will they mean for the future of the auto insurance space?
By Eric P. Harding
Typically, I write this column on the day the magazine goes to print. I write it from my office in Dupont Circle, in Washington, D.C.—that’s where the Academy’s office is located.
By D. Joeff Williams
When I first started thinking about the focus of my next President’s Message, I had already been thinking about the theme of “change.”