When Is Your Own Data Not Enough?
Published in The Actuary magazine of the SOA, June/July 2018.
How using external data can strengthen results.
Related notes:
- Our spring 2018 VA and FIA industry experience studies included over $1.1 trillion in current account values. Highlights and media coverage.
- Triennial VA and FIA mortality studies are on the way this summer.
- We continue to be very busy with client work, developing customized predictive models that balance relevant industry-level data with company- and product-level data, with quantifiable improvement in goodness-of-fit and predictive power relative to company-only data. Like hedging and reinsurance, this is an investment in risk management, not an expense.
- Details to come of our plans for 2019, including expansion to other products such as traditional fixed deferred and payout annuities.
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