By Bob Rietz
I’ve been bitten by the genealogy bug. Bad. I’ve spent hours upon hours during the past 25 years poring over German baptismal records and New York City passenger ship manifests.
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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 Bob Rietz
Is it my imagination, or do people’s opinion of a government subsidy depend on whether they are beneficiaries of it?
By Sam Gutterman
Regular readers (thank you, of course) of this column have gotten used to my focus on uncertainties and risks, key aspects of a risk management or estimation process.
By Bob Rietz
I’ve flown about once a month for 25 years and it finally happened.
By Sam Gutterman
I rarely see things in black-and-white terms. Rather, I always seem to focus on the shades of gray—advantages and costs, weighing a set of considerations.
By Sam Gutterman
Although society has always paid attention to investments needed to sustain and enhance future generations, how it should allocate its resources across generations.
By Bob Rietz
Why aren’t there more women in the actuarial profession?
By Sam Gutterman
Wow—my iPhone just told me that I only spent 4 hours and 47 minutes per day on my phone last week. At least that was a decrease of 5 percent over the previous week!
By Bob Rietz
My father turned on his television one night 30 years ago and watched the fall of the Berlin Wall.