Dan Georgescu

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Welcome to this celebratory edition of The Actuary, marking 30 years of the magazine’s publication.

This month’s magazine continues our campaign to showcase the expertise and influence that actuaries have had, and continue to have, beyond the profession.

Correlation matrices arise in many applications to model the dependence between variables. Dan Georgescu and Nick Higham ask what happens when we have a partially specified matrix and we wish to fill in the missing elements

Welcome to the October issue of The Actuary, which is packed to the brim with great content.

Normally, August means a mass exodus out of the office and to a beach, city break or walking holiday.

Former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King talks to Dan Georgescu about over-reliance on black box models, and the impossibility of quantifying all risks

The high-flying new president of the IFoA, Tan Suee Chieh, talks to Dan Georgescu about his rise to the top and his vision for the actuarial profession

This month we celebrate 30 years since SIAS, with the support of the IFoA, launched The Actuary to reach the profession’s entire membership.

Dan Georgescu talks to Professor Nick Higham, Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, about his role in applying maths to financial problems