Actuaries Institute

Highlights

A woman in the trenches

Hoa Bui – the Institute’s President in 2020 and a long-term leader in the actuarial profession – has been awarded the inaugural ANZIIF Allianz Donna Walker Award for inspiring leadership. The award highlights Hoa’s contribution to the insurance industry – and celebrates Donna Walker’s long-lasting influence.

Kaggle Competition – Modelling of claims costs and a deep dive into the winning solution

Earlier this year, the Actuaries Institute, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Singapore Actuarial Society hosted a competition on Kaggle to promote development of data analytics talent, especially amongst actuaries. This article discusses the winning solution for the competition. In particular, how the winner derived features, built and evaluated the model which led to the best performance.

Australia catches a third wave

Australia has periodically been mentioned in the world press as having done well in responding to COVID-19. Jennifer Lang and Karen Cutter explore the background behind the response to date, reasons for the success, until recently, in limiting the spread of the virus, and current challenges which have seen a marked deterioration in the situation, in a blog on the COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group.