Many actuaries become qualified at different stages in their lives as their careers take off. Meet six actuaries who have experienced various professional opportunities, from working abroad to solving complex social problems using cutting edge data science.
A new Actuaries Institute Green Paper launched this week, spotlighting serious affordability and transparency issues that are threatening Australia’s private health insurance (PHI) sector.
Devastating heatwaves, bushfires, drought and floods result in the Summer of 2018/19 update of the Australian Actuaries Climate Index (AACI) reaching record high levels.
Andrew Rear, Chief Executive at Digital Partners (a Munich Re company) and plenary speaker at the upcoming Summit, describes himself as someone who likes change. Read about all the changes in Andrew's personal and professional life that have brought him to where he is today.
The Royal Commission has brought about a permanent change in the political environment and customers trust in financial institutions. Corporations now face significant risk if their business practices fail to live up to community expectations. Actuaries have a crucial role in managing that risk.
While the 2019 Australian Federal Election can be a very serious matter, the young Actuaries Data Analytics Group (yDAWG) decided to have a bit of fun. Using a Markov Chain generator and existing library of historical tweets, they explain how synthetic tweets can impersonate our political leaders.
Continuing on from Part I, this article discusses how information asymmetry between insurer and reinsurer emerges over the lifetime of a treaty due to capital concerns, increasing access to data, and treaty provisions for repricing, recaptures and errors and omissions.
Actuary and Rhodes Scholar Ian Pollard, together with his daughter Jess Pollard, a career coach, authored the pocket-book Mental Spinach. This brief look at the book's four 'Lenses' outlines important questions to reflect on to design your life and build an engaging and fulfilling career. *Includes four podcasts!*
The Actuaries Institute is now in the implementation phase of changes to it's Education Program. Education Strategy Project Manager Jenny Lyon outlines the reasons for the changes and progress to date, and reminds Members to be in touch with feedback and questions.
The Actuaries Institute has released the 2018 - 2019 collection of Practice Update videos! See what each committee has been up to and also earn CPD points.
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