Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a measure of the body’s ability to supply oxygen to muscles, including the heart, during sustained levels of exercise. Whether or not you believe the hype that just sitting around poses a significant health risk, the truth is most people could do with exercising more.
The race to develop accelerated products has driven life insurers to cautiously embrace the next generation of data.
Could the advances in artificial intelligence that have been applied to the game of chess enhance actuarial science and underwriting? While data drives machine learning today, RGA's Dr. Jeff Heaton notes that Google's AlphaZero demonstrated how a computer can teach itself chess without data.
For some, there’s no spookier scenario than blood work and cumbersome forms to obtain insurance coverage. But as Neil Parkin of RGA South Africa explains, emerging risk segmentation techniques, combined with smarter use of data, could help ease these fears.
Now, there’s a movement in the insurance industry to leverage new forms of surveillance to assess risk during the underwriting process of life insurance policies (the process of assessing a potential customer’s risk).
Lest anyone think the previous exchange is fanciful or seems a bit paranoid, it is already happening. It is known as using accelerated underwriting using external data and over two dozen U.S. insurers are currently using it.
More and more often, algorithms mediate social processes, business transactions, governmental decisions, and how we perceive, understand, and interact among ourselves and with the environment. Gaps between the design and operation of algorithms and our understanding of their ethical implications can have severe consequences affecting individuals as well as groups and whole societies.
The Life Predictive Analytics Survey Report from Willis Towers Watson
RGA's Marc Sofer, Head of Data and Strategic Analytics, Asian Markets, discusses how the newest data sets, together with existing data and novel analytics, are impacting the industry’s growth and development.
