Ash Analytics - Innovative Technology for Actuaries

Made by Actuaries for Actuaries

Ash Analytics deploys innovative technology to revolutionize actuarial work.

Actuaries are responsible for safeguarding a company's financial security. They model financial risk, design sustainable products, and ensure claims will be paid decades in the future. However, most actuaries still rely on overburdened Excel models or proprietary, closed source software with limited flexibility. As a result, vast quantities of insurance data often go unused.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Technology companies are embracing advances in machine learning, cloud computing, and specialized, high performance hardware. Ash Analytics helps insurance companies deploy the latest innovative technology from Silicon Valley to modernize actuarial workflows.

Capabilities

Partner with Ash Analytics to modernize and expand your actuarial capabilities.

Python Workshops

Develop your team's Python skills with a workshop focused on specific actuarial applications.

Model Modernization

Update existing Excel models using simple, fast, open source Python.

Data Analytics

Create streamlined analytics pipelines for your data, from small to big and everything in between.

Data Warehousing

Organize, store, and access your data easily with robust solutions that scale from gigabytes to petabytes.

Data Visualization

Implement interactive reporting dashboards to visualize and communicate complex model results.

Financial Modeling

Build high-performance, robust regulatory models with full audit trails and change control management.

Machine Learning

Deploy the latest machine learning frameworks like Tensorflow & PyTorch to learn more from your data.

Cloud Computing

Reduce capital expenses and pay only for what you use. Run complex financial models on clusters that automatically scale to meet demand.

Contact partnerships@ashanalytics.com to learn more.

Case Studies

Learn more about the technology used by Ash Analytics.

Taylor Series using Autograd

Autograd is a Python library that automatically differentiates numpy code. Here I use it to demonstrate how Taylor Series can be used to fit polynomial functions to complex underlying curves.

Black Scholes in PyTorch

Using PyTorch to implement four methods of calculating European put option price and greeks. I'll demonstrate how automatic differentiation can be used to calculate option greeks, and measure the time it takes for each implementation.

Pricing Exotic Options in PyTorch

Automatic differentiation can be used to calculate the sensitivities, or "greeks", of a stock option, even if we use monte carlo techniques to calculate option price. Many exotic options can only be priced using monte carlo techniques, so automatic differentiation may be able to provide more accurate sensitivities in less time than traditional methods.

About

Jason Ash, FSA, founded Ash Analytics to transform how actuaries work.

Jason is a former Milliman consulting actuary whose fascination with technology led him to San Francisco. He has since worked for two financial technology companies, and now seeks to apply the same innovations to traditional actuarial work.

Jason is a frequent industry speaker and author whose articles have been featured in The Actuary magazine. He also writes about puzzles, probability, Bayesian modeling, and visualization on his website, www.jtash.com.