By Greg Szrama III
A couple years (or was that months?) past, in February 2020, the United States government began planning in earnest for the arrival of COVID-19.
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By David Ogden
Randy Ratesetter came into Sheila Savvy’s office. Randy was relatively new, having joined Virtual Consulting three years ago.
By Carlos Fuentes and Shiraz Jetha
Editor's note: This is the first article in an occasional series by the authors about economics.
By Leo Apilash
When Jim and I first became roommates, by coincidence we also had a number of classes together.
By Jay Vadiveloo
Conservation or policy retention is not a new idea for life insurers.
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.