Below is a varied collection of fun projects I've written, coded, or otherwise built to share with the world.
Every Actuary knows about and loves to peruse the Actuarial Salary Surveys published by recruiters. Imagine my surprise when I discovered there was a treasure trove of Actuarial salary data available to the public just waiting to be aggregated!
The crypto craze of 2022 was not the first, nor likely the last time, that so much focus has been put on the applications of cryptocurrency concepts within insurance. In this article I review a few of the ways that "Decentralized Finance" claims to be revolutionizing insurance offerings.
The study of Life Expectancy is integral to many concepts in the world of Actuarial Science. Products such as Life Insurance, Pensions and Annuities all deal with "Life Contingent" cash flows, so predicting the mortality of purchasers of these products is essential to price them correctly.
Actuaries use many different techniques to price Reinsurance layers. One of the standard methods that Actuaries learn on Exam 8 is the "MBBEFD Curve" method for approximating SwissRe Property Curves, from Stefan Bernegger's Paper. This app provides a visual demonstration on how these MBBEFD curves are used to calculate the expected loss to a reinsurance layer for a single property policy.
Explore the application of computer science algorithms in actuarial work to enhance efficiency. In this case, we use the Binary Search algorithm to signficicantly increase the speed of our R code built to calculate ILFs.