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Temperature extremes and health: The heat is on

Temperature extremes and health: The heat is on

Han Li and Qihe Tang search for evidence linking extremes in temperature with mortality
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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A tax on anti-vax?

A tax on anti-vax?

Pamela Hellig considers whether vaccination against COVID-19 and other diseases should be a rating factor for life insurance
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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Proxy models: uncertain terms

Peter Murphy and Marco Radun share a technique for improving the accuracy of proxy models
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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Winter of discontent

Adele Groyer and John O’Brien assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on claims in 2020, and how this might play out
Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Mandatory climate-related financial disclosures announced

Mandatory climate-related financial disclosures announced

Pension schemes, insurance companies, asset managers and banks will all be forced to disclose their financial exposure to climate change by 2025 under new rules unveiled by the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday.
Tuesday 10th November 2020
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A question of compensation

Nicole Gray and Madeleine Reid examine two methods for estimating the life expectancy of those with multiple impairments
Wednesday 7th October 2020
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CMI launches consultation on mortality modelling

CMI launches consultation on mortality modelling

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has launched a consultation on how its next model should incorporate mortality data for 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Wednesday 23rd September 2020
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Lonely hearts: the effect of spousal death on mortality

Kira Henshaw, Corina Constantinescu and Olivier Menoukeu Pamen investigate the effects of spousal death on the surviving partner’s mortality – and how their model could be applied to disease outbreaks in closed communities such as care homes
Wednesday 5th August 2020
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Decoding disease

Peter Joshi asks: what are the actuarial implications of the Human Genome Project?
Wednesday 5th August 2020
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Smoke signals: The risk profile of e-cigarette users

Niel Daniels shares the E-cigarettes Working Party’s work on the risk profile of e-cigarette users, and how the insurance industry could respond
Wednesday 5th August 2020
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