By Lisa Slotznick
REPUTATIONAL RISK TO ACTUARIES—are we worried? The lead story in this issue of Contingencies on the reputational risk to actuaries’ principals (and in turn to actuaries) focuses on several topic areas—major insurance company insolvencies, climate change with its impact on availability and affordability of insurance, demographic shifts impacting solvency of retirement and life insurance programs, and artificial intelligence.
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By April Choi
Do these sound familiar to you? As practicing actuaries, we inevitably encounter situations when we must deal with unreasonable requests from our companies’ management or clients. But what happens when we are pressured to compromise our professional integrity?
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
CLIMATE CHANGE REPRESENTS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMIC RISK that the Earth has ever encountered since the dawn of human existence.
By Tom Chivers
WHEN I TOOK MATH STATS, Bayes’ theorem took a scant four of the 800 pages of the textbook (published 1990). The instructor told us some researchers were finding interesting applications for it, but we weren’t going to learn about that.
WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE AREA AND/OR AREA OF EXPERTISE? I am a property and casualty actuary, specializing in ratemaking for
(08/29/24) Breakout sessions focused on state reforms, extreme weather, and cost drivers.
(08/27/24) The Windy City was preparing for an onslaught of excited and engaged individuals this month—although it may not have been whom most of America was thinking about.
(08/13/24) Americans may increasingly hold polarizing views about the role of government, but there is at least one federal program that brings people of all political stripes together—Social Security.
(08/06/24) As we roll into the dog days of summer, I am getting sick and tired of the heat in Washington, D.C.
By Nate Worrell
How actuaries, along with insurance and health care professionals, are addressing concerns around adverse mortality trends.