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Actuaries! In an adventure with climate change scientists!

In the second part of his ‘travel tales of a pensions actuary’, Nick Silver finds vodka a useful aperitif to applying actuarial methods to climate change risks in Tajikistan
Wednesday 11th April 2012
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Careers: Why become an actuary?

Dr Geraldine Kaye explains why an actuarial career is a popular choice and describes the characteristics of a model recruit
Tuesday 10th April 2012
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Embedding and Solvency II - know your model

Richard Schneider discusses the importance of understanding and communicating model limitations to ensure effective risk management within Solvency II and beyond
Tuesday 10th April 2012
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Technology: Head in the clouds, but feet firmly planted

James Maudslay explores how cloud services can improve access, processing and delivery of information for underwriting businesses
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Education: Sunrise for Indian actuaries

Trevor Watkins reports back on the ascent of actuarial education in India
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Investment modelling: Extreme measures

Paul Sweeting examines how to measure the co-movement of investment returns at the extreme ends of a distribution
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Regulation: Quality as standard

Paul Kennedy explains how the Financial Reporting Council intends to exercise its responsibilities for actuarial regulation and quality in the coming year
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Life: The future of underwriting - catching waves

Tim Jehnichen discusses trends in life insurance underwriting and how actuaries need to work closely with underwriters to develop accurate, forward-looking best estimates
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Q&A: On my agenda - Elliot Varnell

Dan Georgescu talks to Milliman's Elliot Varnell about ESGs, CROs and the impact of Solvency II
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Actuary of the future: Avdhesh Gupta

What are the chances of Avdhesh Gupat over-achieving in actuarial? He's probably worked that out already…
Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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