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Interview: Tim Harford on the importance of questioning our assumptions

Tim Harford speaks to Ruolin Wang about why it’s so important to slow down and question things from emotive headlines to the numbers and algorithms we use in our work
Wednesday 30th November 2022
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The road to understanding

Vrishti Goel examines how data analytics could provide more personalised insurance products, for example within the motor insurance industry
Wednesday 30th November 2022
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The next generation of pricing

Massimo Cavadini, Davide Burlon and Gili Smadja discuss how automated machine learning is changing the role of the pricing actuary
Wednesday 30th November 2022
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Taking the initiative: exploring pricing innovation

Yiannis Parizas and Phanis Ioannou consider how non-life organisations could gain a strategic advantage through various aspects of the pricing process
Wednesday 5th October 2022
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The hacktuary 2.0

Martijn Westra reports on a recent hackathon, which aimed to boost health outcomes and demonstrate the value of both data science and actuaries
Wednesday 5th October 2022
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No crystal ball needed: the utility of behavioural economics

In an increasingly uncertain world, insurers can use behavioural economics to help them develop more accurate foresight, says Maura Fedderson
Wednesday 5th October 2022
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Game on: the outcomes of a motor insurance competition in Saudi Arabia

Juan Ignacio de Oyarbide discusses the outcomes of a motor insurance pricing game held in Saudi Arabia, and key lessons to emerge from it
Wednesday 31st August 2022
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On the write track: using machine learning to predict underwriting decisions

Yafei (Patricia) Wang looks at the use of machine learning to predict underwriting decisions for life and health insurance
Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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An end to underwriters? The challenges of machine learning

Is machine learning a threat to the underwriting practice? Reza Hekmat and Balint Bone consider this possibility and its challenges
Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Bringing data to mind: understanding mental health

Lisa Balboa, Maryse Nashime, Serena Soong and Joe Wilson assess how data use could help to progress actuarial understanding of mental health
Wednesday 6th July 2022
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