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22:33

Health Section: Underwriting Transformation in the...

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2023/02/27

This episode focuses on the evolution of underwriting techniques to the current use of predictive models. Topics include what carriers might consider when launching a model, reflections on when not to use results from a model, current regulatory concerns and activity around predictive models, and other topics carriers may run into once a model is up and running.

22:09

Young Professionals Advisory Council: Young...

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2023/02/27

Join YPAC member Harrison Smith, ASA, as he talks with Nathan Worrell, FSA, to learn about found success and growth within the actuarial profession. Hear Nate’s suggestions to define and pursue success including how to utilize your skillset, volunteering to gain access to knowledge, and finding resonance in your work.

19:37

Emerging Topics Community: The Hashing Trick for High...

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2023/02/21

This is the third in a 4-part series where Anders Larson and Shea Parkes discuss predictive analytics with high cardinality features. In this episode they focus on feature engineering via the hashing trick. The hashing trick is most applicable for extremely high cardinality, and at first glance can seem almost ridiculous. In a lot of ways, it is the same as bucketing values at random. But there are times that it is more valuable to include randomly engineered buckets than to exclude the original

19:46

Emerging Topics Community: Y-aware Feature...

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2023/01/31

This is the second in a 4-part series where Anders Larson and Shea Parkes discuss predictive analytics with high cardinality features. In this episode they focus on y-aware feature engineering. Y-aware feature engineering is all about carefully bleeding information from your training response back into your engineered features without grossly misrepresenting your ability to generalize to new data.

04:32

Young Professional Advisory Council: Welcome to a New...

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2023/01/30

Anthony Weatherspoon, ASA, MAAA, and Kiu Yuen, FSA, MAAA introduce the latest addition to the SOA’s podcast lineup. Discover what to expect from the Young Professional Advisory Council series, how often to tune in, and topics to be covered in upcoming episodes.

11:57

Young Professionals Advisory Council: Strategic...

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2023/01/30

Join the Young Professional Advisory Council (YPAC) Board liaison Melody Prangley, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA, as she discusses upcoming and future initiatives for YPAC, exciting engagement opportunities, ways for members to elevate their networks and skillsets and how to manage and delegate a team.

18:44

Health Section: Food Intervention Impact

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2023/01/23

Host Jackie Lee discusses the impacts of food intervention with Lauren Driscoll of NourishedRx. Learn about how this important basic need impacts the health and well-being of under-served populations and how health plans and actuaries should think about this impact in health care costs. Lauren explains how these services can create a deeper connection between consumer and their health plan. The State of US Health, 1990-2016, Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Among US States

27:45

Emerging Topics Community: Introducing Predictive...

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2023/01/10

This is the first in a 4-part series where Anders Larson and Shea Parkes discuss predictive analytics with high cardinality features. In this episode they focus on introducing what high cardinality features are, why you might want to work with them and some of the basic approaches to including them in predictive models.

28:27

Health Section: Leadership Series: John Robinson

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2023/01/02

Title: Leadership Series: John Robinson Description: Jackie Lee discussed with John Robinson about his new role as SOA President. He talks about his background and how he got to this prestigious and monumental role. They discuss his Presential Speech, which is found here.

38:17

Product Development Section: Confusing the Matrix

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2022/12/28

23:18

Health Section: Ensuring Predictive Model Wellbeing

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2022/12/26

A conversation on monitoring and maintaining data science models and how that compares to actuarial models.

30:16

Product Development Section: Electronic Health...

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2022/12/15

What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Digital Medical Data today and how it is used today? How does it compare to Attending Physician Statement (APS) and what’s in it for underwriters.

24:02

Long Term Care Section: California Long Term Care...

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2022/12/12

Parag Shah discusses his involvement with the California Long Term Care Insurance Task Force, which has been discussing potential public LTC options for the state of California.

31:37

Health Section: Bias in Health Insurance Pricing?

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2022/12/12

Jackie Lee joins Lydia Tolman and Jackie Young as they discuss their SOA Research paper, “Interactions of Health Care Rating Factors with Race, Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Factors.” We discuss how health care rating factors should be considered when being used in pricing.

23:52

Health Section: Current Events in Supplemental Benefits

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2022/12/05

Join us as Ashlee Borcan and Dave Dillion discuss current events and trends in the supplemental benefits world.

37:57

Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers, and...

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2022/11/30

26:39

Health Section: Auditor Check-in

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2022/11/21

Discussion regarding recent industry events and what your auditor will be looking for in regards to these impacts.

19:22

Health Section: Navigate through Risk-Based Capital...

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2022/11/07

Risk-based capital (RBC) is a method of measuring the minimum amount of capital appropriate for an insurer to support its overall business operations, taking into consideration the insurer’s size and risk profile. Today’s focus is on the Health RBC which is a standardized way to aggregate risk using a capital formula applied across insurers and for the public record.

25:40

Health Section: Better Care Through Understanding the...

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2022/10/24

Learn how healthcare actuaries are going beyond claims and enrollment data to drive clinical, financial and operational performance by leveraging new data sources and machine learning.

38:30

Emerging Topics Community: The Tests Never End: An...

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2022/10/13

This is the third and final installment of a 3-part series where Joe Alaimo and Andy Rallis discuss the different types of software testing, what they are, how they are performed and ways that they apply to the software development that actuaries are involved in. Full Description: Have you ever been involved with a software development project? One thing that all software development projects have in common is testing. You may have been involved in some of the testing of these systems or maybe

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