The pandemic we have just come out of reminded us of the importance of maintaining robust food sovereignty in our country, provinces and cities.
Climate change: challenges and opportunities for crop insurance in Canada
How to Manage Capital Volatility under IFRS 17 and LICAT 2023
By FCIAs Robert Berendsen and Catherine Sun Effective January 1, 2023, insurers that report on an International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) basis are required to apply IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts (IFRS 17). In adapting to IFRS 17, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has revised the Life Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (LICAT) 2019 guideline and published...
Navigating a Non-Traditional Actuarial Career: From Insurance to Banking
By Sheng Tseng, FCIA My early career path The first phase of my actuarial career should be relatable to most actuaries. I graduated with an actuarial science degree and passed some SOA exams, then joined a large insurance company in their actuarial rotation program. A few years later I moved to an international actuarial consultancy where I was involved with a number of traditional and non...
Does retirement need to retire?
The next generation of older workers will behave differently. We need to discuss how to change the parameters of retirement to adapt to these changes.
The uncomfortable truths of analytics: Lessons from baseball and actuarial work
It’s been a couple of years since we tried to tie baseball to the actuarial profession, so I thought it was time to do it again.
