Data Analytics
Modern government service delivery - 2018 Public Policy Essay Competition Winner
Hugh Miller's essay was singled out for its clear communication, logical structure and innovative approach to a growing issue for governments – how to deliver important services within ever tightening budgets.
Posted on: May 21, 2018
CareerView Podcast - Managing a Data Analytics Team
Hugh Miller (Principal at Taylor Fry) asks Aaron Cutter (Principal at Finity) how he deals with the new technologies and skills required to manage analytics teams delivering for a diverse range of clients.
Posted on: May 16, 2018
Actuaries Podcast - Young Actuaries Conference 2018
Business Adviser at High Earth Orbit Robotics Solai Valliappan previews her talk at the upcoming Young Actuaries Conference (YAC) including the importance of a 'strong network' and her work consulting 'the Google Maps of asteroid resources in space'.
Posted on: May 15, 2018
Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Insurance – a YAP event report
A panel of experts shared their experiences on “Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence Applications in Insurance” at a recent Melbourne YAP (Young Actuaries Program) event.
Posted on: May 14, 2018
Data and privacy in the aftermath of Cambridge Analytica - Normal Deviance
The Facebook - Cambridge Analytica saga has dominated headlines. It has been a useful case study for companies thinking about their data and partnerships arrangements.
Posted on: May 4, 2018
YAP Workshop - Climate Data and Insurance
Participants of a recent YAP Climate Workshop were asked to cast their minds forward to 2025 in a fictitious scenario where the small town of Derby, WA – now 'New Derby' – is a similar size to Darwin with a population of 100,000.
Posted on: April 12, 2018
2018 Actuarial Hackathon - Update
The Actuarial Hackathon Committee is excited to provide a much anticipated update on its very first actuarial hackathon event, sponsored by Finity Consulting.
Posted on: April 12, 2018
Letting Insurance Asset Data Speak for Itself
In late 2016, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) commissioned a paper on asset allocation trends of Asian life companies. Two FIAA’s who co-wrote the paper “Letting Insurance Asset Data Speak for Itself”[1] highlight its key findings here.
Posted on: April 11, 2018
New FSF format includes international guest speakers
The 2018 Financial Services Forum’s innovative format includes a focus on ‘big-picture’ plenary and keynote speakers.
Posted on: April 5, 2018
Books that made me - Normal deviance
Regular columnist Hugh Miller reflects on the books that he’s found most useful in his career so far.
Posted on: March 27, 2018
Using analytics to improve marketing - ADMA Data Day
Aaron Cutter and Luke Cassar share their impressions of the 2018 ADMA Data Day, including how marketing is getting more personal due to smarter analytics.
Posted on: March 12, 2018
Can “traditional” actuarial methods be sexy?
Amongst much talk about data science and new analytics techniques, Ashish Ahluwalia challenges the profession to be bold in sticking to their roots and take their toolkit of ‘traditional’ actuarial methods into a broader industries outside of insurance.
Posted on: March 12, 2018
2018 Agenda – Key themes for financial services players
Chief Editor Angat Sandhu's first Editorial focuses on key themes at play in our industry, from regulatory paradigm shift, to heightened customer expectations, and finding efficiency though technology and data analytics.
Posted on: March 8, 2018
The Critical Line – Volume 19
Oliver Chambers puts forward a puzzle that lies at the intersection of statistics and espionage.
Posted on: March 5, 2018
Pricing tree structures with shifting parameters
Greg Taylor from UNSW Business School gives a brief summary of his paper on pricing tree structures with shifting parameters, discussing motivation, hierarchical models, the Kalman filter and a numerical example.
Posted on: March 5, 2018
Gender pay gap for actuaries: an update
Jennifer Lang looks at the latest stats on average pay for actuarial men and women and finds that, if female actuaries are discriminated against (which there's no proof of), it's not as bad as it is for accountants!
Posted on: January 30, 2018
How artificial intelligence is changing retail value perception
Actuary with Woolworths Group, Jo Chidwala outlines the most popular types of AI, what they can do for retail and why those who invest in cognitive insights will reap long term rewards.
Posted on: January 11, 2018
Becoming an Analytics-Based Insurer: A Road Map – Part 1
Stephen Lowe, former managing director at Willis Towers Watson and past President of the Casualty Actuarial Society, shares his views on the benefits of combining actuarial knowledge and data science. This is part one of a two-part series, focusing on the requisite skills and technological advances driving current data science innovations.
Posted on: January 2, 2018
A not-so-actuarial look at the marriage equality ballot
David Kwak from Actuarial Edge looks at the demographic data of the marriage equality ballot to find some interesting facts on participation rates, proportion of yes votes and differences in votes across states and territories.
Posted on: December 7, 2017
Automatic machine learning - Zeming's data analytics ‘meetup’ files
It's the year 2025. As an actuary for a major software vendor, you've just been asked by your boss to figure out why the algorithm liability claims are deteriorating.
Posted on: November 22, 2017
