By Colby Schaeffer
It has now been three calendar years that we have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot has changed and will continue to change once society and every industry, especially health care, gets through the back end of it.
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By the Academy’s Committee on Professional Responsibility
The article below—originally released by the Academy’s Committee on Professional Responsibility in November 2021— is intended to help actuaries think proactively about professionalism and how to explain its importance to the work they do and the stakeholders they serve. We are republishing it here to amplify this important message.
By Eric Klieber
Created in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Social Security (officially the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance System) was initially motivated primarily by a desire to provide economic relief for those deemed unable to work due to old age and thus unable to benefit from the new Unemployment Insurance program or from New Deal programs providing jobs for the unemployed, such as the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.
By John Blocher
How do we provision a small amount life insurance policy
as efficiently as possible to a person with low and highly variable income?
Step to the dry-erase board and suspend disbelief to think about the best way to do this.
By Carlos Fuentes
The Strategic Role of Ownership Structure for Insurance Companies
By Surbhi Misra, Dave Nelson, and Keith Passwater
As artificial intelligence (AI) has become more widely discussed and pursued in business, most professionals have come to learn that AI is concerned with devising computational methods to emulate human intelligence.
By Kendra Letang and Rob Walling
There’s a misperception that innovators don’t need rules. Or, perhaps more dramatically, a perception that innovators flout rules.
By John Divine
Tesla is the rare breed of company that’s hard to define.
By Kendra Letang and Rob Walling
There’s a misperception that innovators don’t need rules. Or, perhaps more dramatically, a perception that innovators flout rules.
Contingencies sat down with Tom Campbell, Lisa Slotznick, and Joeff Williams—three members of the Committee on Qualifications (COQ), the Academy body that drafted the amended USQS—to discuss this historic undertaking.