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.”
Letters submitted to Contingencies regarding the March/April 2020 and the March/April 2016 issue.
By John T. Stokesbury
I am fascinated by the old movies that have been “colorized”—teasing out the real colors from the slight variations in gray used throughout the film.
By Paul Conlin
Like many actuaries and financial analysts, I have spent the last half-decade hearing the buzzwords “Big Data,” “data analytics,” “predictive analysis,” and various other iterations of the same idea.