Modelling/software

Ayşe Arık, Andrew Cairns, Erengul Dodd, Adam Shao and George Streftaris share their findings on the impact of socio-economic differences and diagnostic delays on cancer mortality

With the ONS starting to release the data from the 2021 census, Jeremy Keating considers how those working in insurance can make use of it

Can IPCC projections be used to adjust catastrophe models for climate change? Nigel Winspear and David Maneval investigate, using US hurricanes as an example

Esther Hawley and Clarence Er look at the progress being made on developing better post-retirement solutions

Phil Hardingham and Keith McInally discuss linking scheme funding valuations to the cost of CDI assets, and what prudence looks like in this context

Chris Martin and Steve Bale discuss how actuaries modelled the impacts of critical care demand and long COVID during the pandemic

Maryam Abdullah shares the ICAT’s approach to pandemic scenario modelling, and potential lessons for climate modelling

Kim Burgess and Richard Waterer examine the causes of recent elevated supply chain risk, and how insurers can address it

Achim Regenauer presents an overview of the latest long COVID research, and suggests a plausible subgrouping of this multifaceted post-viral condition

A quick online search of ‘COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group’ (ARG) will bring up results from the BBC to Sky News, and many other media outlets besides. Among its many achievements, the group has brought the word ‘actuary’ into the mainstream lexicon.