SOA Podcasts - Society of Actuaries Society of Actuaries (SOA)
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This is the official podcast feed of the Society of Actuaries
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Actuary of the Future: Launching Your Actuarial Career: Mike McPhee Anderson
Join new host Nick Kocisak, ASA, and Mike McPhee Anderson, FSA, to learn about Mike's unique educational background and the importance of data science know-how in the actuarial world. In this episode, Mike discusses some advantages of continuing education and dispels data science "dirty words" like Poisson distribution and decision tree in hopes that actuaries will embrace these advanced techniques and continue to drive the profession forward!
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Health Section: Gene and Cell Therapy Basics
In this episode, Dave Dillon discusses some basics of gene and cell therapies with Marnie Bute of AON and Kristi Bohn of RGA, including a summary on the science, costs, as well as network and coverage concerns.
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Emerging Topics Community: What Are the Chances We Will Lose More Than $1 Million?
In this episode Joe Alaimo interviews Joan Barret, Achilles Natsis and Tony Pistilli to discuss total risk analysis, a technique that provides a consistent methodology for answering questions like “what are the chances we will lose more than $1 million?”
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Long Term Care Section: Mike Bergerson and the M&A Webcast on May 23
Roger Loomis gets to know Mike Bergerson and learns about the upcoming webcast “LTC M&A—Are the Floodgates Opening?” The webcast is on May 23rd 2024 from 12:00 to 1:15 PM ET. Please register here: https://www.soa.org/prof-dev/webcasts/2024-ltc-floodgates/
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Health Section: Weight Loss Management Drugs
Listen as host Jackie Lee discusses GLP-1s and their role in Weight Loss Management, with Tyler Engel. They discuss how these drugs are being used and what actuaries should consider when assessing their costs and implications.
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Emerging Topics Community: Return to Trees, Part 4: Gradient Boosting Machines
In the final episode of this mini-series, Shea and Anders cover the other common tree-based ensemble model, the Gradient Boosting Machine. Like Random Forests, GBMs make use of a large number of decision trees, but they use a “boosting” approach that cleverly makes use of “weak learners” to incrementally extract information from the data. After an explanation of how GBMs work, we compare them to Random Forests and go over a few examples where they have used GBMs in their own work.
Customer Reviews
Good use of my time
This podcast feed is the aggregator all SOA section podcasts. Some section interviews are more engaging than others. But overall I find most sessions to be informative and interesting, and I learn something (about the topic or the guest). Good job SOA!
Links to articles in notes
I’ve been listening to this podcast for just about a month.
It would be really helpful if links were provided in the episode notes to articles, websites, etc. referenced during the podcast episode to make finding and accessing that information easier.
Other that that I’ve found the podcasts very interesting so far.
Nice overviews
While I’m personally interested in the research podcasts, each provides a short overview that introduces the highlights of a topic that I might then look into more deeply. I encourage all the sections to look into this.