Contingencies

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Regulating AI?

What last year’s explosion means for the future of policy By Adam Benjamin Late last year, a friend of mine was convinced the apocalypse was coming. He believed an asteroid was going to burn through our atmosphere, take a chunk out of the... Read More

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Rising to the Top—Meet this year’s cadre of Rising Actuary Award winners

Young actuary leaders represent the future of the actuarial profession, bringing innovation, new perspectives and skills, and an embrace of leadership roles to guide it into the future. They are taking an essential role in contributing to the... Read More

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Extreme Outcomes

By Michael G. Malloy It’s been hard to turn on the news this year and not see prominent stories about extreme weather and climate-change issues. Intense heat blanketed much of the South for most of the summer, with heat indexes holding near or... Read More

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Security, Safely—Evaluating the effectiveness of a combined investment-and-annuity strategy for retirement planning

By Jay Vadiveloo and Zhiguo Wang Motivation For the millions of retirees, financial advisers, and investment managers, there is one pervasive problem—how to balance performance against the safety of retirement assets. Life annuities can... Read More

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Generative AI—Pitfalls and Pratfalls

By R. Greg Szrama III Tools like ChatGPT are exciting ... and bring with them a host of challenges to navigate In January 2021, OpenAI gave us DALL-E. We soon became familiar with nightmare-fuel-laden images of “people” with too many... Read More