Monthly Archives: April 2020
Care homes – the elephant is out the room
We can take as the roughest of approximations that the numbers dying in care or at home is about half of the number in hospitals. That would mean that the number who have died outside hospital by now (April … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Data, Death, elephant, residential care, Room Covid-19
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ReAssure’s IGC report
ReAssure, after a short delay, have published their 2019/20 IGC report which you can read here It’s a betwixt and between document as at the time of publication, ReAssure is in the process of being acquired by Phoenix and in … Continue reading
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Tagged IGC, pensions, Reassure, workplace pensons
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Knock knock knocking on heaven’s door
This post was first published here on Geethism and is republished with the kind permission of Geetha and her family. Well, where do I begin, right at the beginning is a good place to start as any I guess. … Continue reading
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Actuaries weekly round up ; Covid-19
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID19 Actuaries Response Group read more about the outbreak than most, so we’ve decided each Friday to provide you with a curated list of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver
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Covid-19; Risk, Uncertainty, Psychology and Judgement
You can see this presentation which runs to 60 slides following Tan’s narrative The Slideshare is available to read below in plain text. By TAN SUEE CHIEH, IFoA’s President Elect Keywords Risk. People (p). Risk of mortality … Continue reading
Furloughing financial advice?
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Tagged advice, Furlough, IFA, pensions, Succession, Work
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Lockdown – is the cure worse than the illness? These actuaries think not.
We have reviewed the paper “J-value assessment of how best to combat Covid-19” by Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Faculty of Engineering at Bristol University. Summary of key aspects of the paper This paper was given … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID19, Government, Intervention, Lockdown, Peter Tompkins
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“Be fast. Have no regrets. You must be the first mover”.
“Fast moving actuary” was once the title of a gossip column in Professional Pensions. It’s an intentional oxymoron, the actuary’s stock in trade is prudence – standing back. But “with a pandemic you can never act too early” and … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, COVID19, Germany, Nicola Oliver, Trump
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Giving “at home carers” – a voice
I listened to a very moving radio program this morning. Petrie Hosken on national radio (16th April 4-5am) gave her program to carers who called in and told us what it was like to care for another at home – … Continue reading
Covid-19 – interpreting the deaths data
Hospital deaths – Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England Data for the total number of positive tests for and deaths with COVID-19 in the UK (that is, individuals hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for COVID-19) … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuaires, Covid-19, COVID19, Death, Department of Health, NHS, Social care
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