Emerging Topics Community: LLMs – Separating the Models From the Applications
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Release Date: 02/04/2025
Young Professional Advisory Council: Bring Passion to Your Career Journey
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Join host Andrea Wang, ASA, ACIA, for an inspiring episode featuring Vincent Lepez, PhD, IAF (Institut des Actuaires Francais), a distinguished leader and a seasoned expert in the insurance and reinsurance industry. With decades of experience bridging academia and diverse global sectors, Vincent unveils his remarkable career journey, offering actionable insights on discovering your passion and mastering industry transitions. Tune in to uncover how curiosity, adaptability, and strategic risk-taking can transform your professional path and unlock your fullest potential.
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Long Term Care Section: We Learn from Experience!
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Roger Loomis interviews Matt Morton about the next generation of the SOA’s Long-Term Care experience study. You can reach out to Matt Morton at [email protected].
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Entrepreneurial & Innovation: Turning Modeling Headaches into an Actuarial Infrastructure Startup
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Host Victor Zhao, FSA, CERA sits down with Frank Cheung, FSA, MAAA, CEO and Founder of Accorded, to explore how modeling headaches and operational friction inspired him to launch an actuarial data and analytics infrastructure startup. Frank shares how he identified the core problem, validated it through deep industry conversations, and took the leap into entrepreneurship.
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Marketing & Distribution Section: Pensions Reimagined: Navigating Demographics and Innovation with Lilach Frenkel
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Join us for an insightful conversation with host Tiana Zhao and guest Lilach Frenkel from CAAT Pension to explore the evolving world of pensions.
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Young Professional Advisory Council: Calculated Risks with Jing Lang - A Journey from Corporate Actuary to Entrepreneur
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How do you go from working in a structured corporate actuarial role to forging your own entrepreneurial path? In this episode, Yisi Wang, FSA, CFA sits down with Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA, a seasoned actuary, writer and entrepreneur, who transitioned from corporate actuarial science to entrepreneurship. She shares her journey, the challenges she faced, and the strategies that helped her navigate uncertainty. Whether you're contemplating a career shift, exploring entrepreneurship, or simply love hearing stories of transformation, this conversation is packed with insights, inspiration, and lessons on...
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Emerging Topics Community: Climate Change: An introduction with Actuarial Considerations
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In this episode, Joe Alaimo interviews Joan Barret to discuss climate change, highlighting their impacts on the environment and everyday life and the roles actuaries play in assessing risks and solutions related to climate change.
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Health Section: Professionalism – ABCD
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Do you need professionalism credits? Look no further and listen to host Jackie Lee discuss experiences with the ABCD for counseling from guests Cathy Quock and Lydia Tolman.
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Young Professional Advisory Council: Leadership Lessons from an Entrepreneurial-Minded Actuary
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Join host Silver Zhou, FSA, Chair of YPAC, for a dynamic conversation with Matthew Duke, ACAS, a seasoned actuary, insurance industry leader, and longtime volunteer in various actuarial organizations. Duke shares the deliberate and strategic steps that shaped his career in both traditional actuarial roles and non-traditional industries. Along the way, he reveals invaluable insights on the impact of mentors and coaches at different career stages and why understanding people is key to success as a business leader.
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Health Section: Professionalism – Actuarial Communications
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Listen in to get those professionalism CE credits with host Jackie Lee and guest Cathy Quock. They talk about the differences between actuarial communications in a consulting role or internal company setting. They reference the Code of Professional Conduct and ASOPs.
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Long Term Care Section: The LTC Population Research Model
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Roger Loomis talks with Eddie Armentrout of Actuarial Research Corporation about the SOA Research Institute’s LTC Population Research Model, which can be used to examine the impact of public LTC plans on beneficiary finances and service utilization.
info_outlineJoin Anders Larson and Shea Parkes as they dive into the world of large language models (LLMs) again. Actuaries are familiar with matrix multiplication, which is at the heart of most LLMs, but not all actuaries are as familiar with how complex software application components work together. In this episode we tease apart the models from the applications and discuss which is responsible for what parts of the magic.