Category Archives: actuaries
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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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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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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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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The elephant in the care home
New paper looks at early evidence of care home mortality in different countries. Provisionally concludes that about half (42% to 57%) of COVID-19 deaths are taking place in care homes. As a reminder, the 11,329 deaths announced by DHSC are … Continue reading
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Tagged Care Homes, Coronavirus, COVID19, Covid19actiongroup, death rates, ONS
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Nicola Oliver on capacity within the NHS
We are reliant upon healthcare capacity to reduce the severity of this pandemic in terms of morbidity and mortality. One of the key challenges will be how a health system copes in times of increased demand. This is contingent … Continue reading
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A library of COVID-19 actuarial responses
When I posted this library, the actuaries who’ve blogged had no central library of their work. So I published their articles on my blog and curated them here. All the articles they’ve written have also been published on linked in … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial response, COVID19, internet, Stuart McDonald
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Actuaries make this Friday good – their weekly Covid19 round-up.
The authors, Matt Fletcher (left) and Dan Ryan (right) 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 they’ve decided each … Continue reading
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Actuaries – are doing it – doing it!
Mohammed Khan and Gary McInally Q. How do you get 400 actuaries to work together at one week’s notice? A. Issue a call to arms with a strong social purpose. I’m not an actuary, but I promote their profession … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuires, Covid-19, Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group
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