General Insurance
Climate Change Blog - July 2018
The first instalment of the Climate Change Log, an article series that aims to cover news and events related to climate change and relevant to actuaries and the industries they advise.
Posted on: July 20, 2018
Fast five with Fintechs - an introduction
Elayne Grace outlines a new Actuaries Digital series where we spend five minutes with Australian Fintech and Insurtech companies, asking about their products and start-up journeys so far.
Posted on: June 28, 2018
Fast five with Fintechs - Plenty Wealth
Greg Einfeld, Director at Plenty Wealth outlines his journey in fintech and where he sees his business, and the broader fintech landscape heading.
Posted on: June 28, 2018
Why is this the most exciting time to be a young actuary? - YAC 2018 report
The 2018 Young Actuaries Conference (YAC) began with more than 150 young actuaries around the country devoting half their day, seeking to be inspired. Chetana Koganti reports.
Posted on: June 22, 2018
A different road to success - Interview with Martin Fry
After an eventful 43-year career, Taylor Fry Principal Martin Fry looks back on a lifetime of quiet achievement, his passionate aversion to hierarchy and the guru that inspires him to this day.
Posted on: June 19, 2018
The Appointed Actuary Role: Back to the future
Responsibilities of the Appointed Actuary (AA) role have expanded in recent years with an increased focus on compliance activities, reducing capacity for the AA to be involved in the provision of strategic advice to the Board and senior management.
Posted on: June 14, 2018
Mission Possible – reviving the ‘M’ in STEM
Farheena Ahmad describes her experience going ‘back to school’ as part of CSIRO STEM’s Professionals in School Program and discusses the need to revive positive attitudes and enthusiasm towards mathematics in the classrooms of the future.
Posted on: June 6, 2018
Inspiring Change: Interview with Actuary and Director at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
In this Q&A, Meng shares why she loves working in "revolutionary disability reform", and the advice that changed how she approaches work and measures success. All ahead of her talk at the upcoming Young Actuaries Conference (YAC)!
Posted on: May 11, 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
IFRS 17 Taskforce Update - March 2018
This article reports on the new AASB 17 Insurance Contracts Information Note, released on 8 March 2018, to support actuaries in Australia and NZ in the application of IFRS17.
Posted on: March 28, 2018
Genetics - The Dialogue Podcast
The next instalment of the Dialogue Podcast series explores the broader future implications of genetic testing for society, medical professionals and the insurance industry, featuring co-author Jessica Chen.
Posted on: March 23, 2018
Five things we learned networking in London
The London Australian Actuaries Network reports on its December mission to combine networking with one of the great institutions of British culture – pints at a pub.
Posted on: March 20, 2018
Climate Risk Fluency Series – Part One
With Part Two of the Climate Risk Fluency series fast approaching, APRA's David Jenkins gives us a taste of what to expect by reporting on the highlights (including insights from the BOM and CSIRO) from the Part One seminar.
Posted on: March 15, 2018
The reinsurance underwriting cycle: a simple supply and demand story
Richard Hartigan discusses the drivers of the reinsurance underwriting cycle and his theory on the next ‘market turning event’.
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
Climate Risk Disclosure - The Dialogue Podcast
In this first episode of the Dialogue Podcast series, Andrew Doughman questions Sharanjit Paddam, Principal at Deloitte, on his Dialogue thought leadership paper 'Climate Risk Disclosure, Financial Institutions Feel the Heat'.
Posted on: February 28, 2018
How do we fund future resilience from natural disasters?
Ahead of this year's Catastrophe Risk Seminar, Sharanjit Paddam explains why it's important to discuss issues around funding natural disasters in Australia. He also highlights what delegates can look forward to on the day.
Posted on: February 6, 2018
ACT CTP Scheme Reform: An Experiment in Democracy
The ACT government decided to pilot a Citizens’ jury to consider how the ACT CTP scheme can be improved. Geoff Atkins was invited to be part of the jury as an expert adviser and here, he shares his experience with the profession.
Posted on: November 27, 2017
What you missed at the 2017 Injury and Disability Schemes Seminar
The 2017 Injury and Disability Schemes Seminar welcomed over 300 delegates to Sofitel Brisbane Central this week. With over 50% of delegates being non-actuaries, there was a great diversity of thought and experience presented in four plenary and 48 concurrent sessions.
Posted on: November 16, 2017
