Insurance Industry News
Trov offers a combination policy (Medical + Trip Interruption + Lost Items) to passengers in Waymo self-driving cars:
AXA teamed up with UberEATs to provide another combination policy (A&H and Third Party Liability) to its couriers in Europe:
I blogged about sub-prime auto and increasing frequency here:
Data Vis
Design secrets behind the FT’s best charts of the year
Stats/R:
Simply Stats with a nice summary of interesting stats/R items from 2017:
Deep Learning
This came out a few weeks ago, but it’s worth noting this new approach to neural networks – Capsule Networks – from Hinton:
Research
IBNR
COHERENT INCURRED PAID (CIP) MODELS FOR CLAIMS RESERVING
Yield Curves – Might be useful for some African countries
Approximating risk-free curves in sparse data environments
Equity Valuation
Climate Change and Property Values (via the amazing Marginal Revolutions blog):
From the abstract – Homes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell at a 7% discount relative to observably equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach. This discount has grown over time and is driven by sophisticated buyers and communities worried about global warming.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3073842