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Beyond Actuary vs Data Scientist: the Hybrid Role Insurance Needs

🎙️ The Actuarial Angle: Beyond Actuary vs Data Scientist: the Hybrid Role Insurance Needs

Pricing • 4-minute read

An Actuarial Data Scientist is an actuary who is also fluent in machine learning. The role blends a deep grounding in insurance with modern analytical techniques.

Agentic AI for Actuaries: What It Is and Why It Matters

Agentic AI for Actuaries: What It Is and Why It Matters

Pricing • 5-minute read

In this article, we break down the three generations of AI, why actuaries face a higher bar than most professions, and what the right agentic AI actually looks like in a pricing workflow.

Cross-functional collaboration between actuaries, IT, data, and product teams

🎙 The Actuarial Angle: Actuaries, IT, Data, and Product: Building Better Cross-Functional Collaboration

Pricing • 5-minute read

Building a strong pricing model is key for actuarial teams, but it is only one part of the journey. For the model to create business value, it needs to move through data pipelines, product requirements, IT systems, governance processes, and deployment workflows before it can reach production. That journey rarely belongs to actuaries alone.

Transparency and Governance in Insurance Pricing

Transparency and Governance in Insurance Pricing Operations

Pricing • 4-minute read

Transparency and Governance in Insurance Pricing helps carriers improve auditability, strengthen compliance, and build trust with explainable AI.

The Actuarial Angle: GLM vs GBM: Which one wins and when?

🎙 The Actuarial Angle: GLM vs GBM: Which one wins and when?

Pricing • 5-minute read

The GLM versus GBM debate has dominated actuarial circles for years. It's not about which model is better, it's about knowing exactly when each one delivers the most value. We asked our Actuarial Data Scientists at Akur8 to settle this question. Their answer: both models win, just in very different situations.

Insurance Pricing Modernization

The AKUR8 Method: A Roadmap for Insurance Pricing Modernization

Pricing • 4-minute read

A five-phase roadmap to help insurers assess, prioritize, modernize, reinforce, and scale pricing transformation.