Climate risk, cyber concerns, and financial volatility are the top emerging risks according to an annual survey of risk managers.
Climate, Cyber and Financial Volatility Lead List of Emerging Risks
Examining the considerations of going concern discount rates for pension plans
What considerations should actuaries have when selecting the going concern discount rate for pension plans? Gavin Benjamin, FCIA, explores this topic in his member’s paper Going Concern Discount Rate for Pension Plans With High Asset Allocation to Bond and shares some of his research on Seeing Beyond Risk. Hosted by Ping-Teng Lin, FCIA.
A race to the finish line
The end is in sight for the implementation of IFRS 17, scheduled to take place on January 1, 2023. To get a view of the state of affairs on this project, we sat down with the Co-Chairs of the IFRS 17 Steering Committee, Les Rehbeli, FCIA, and Sati MacLean, FCIA.
Public health-care modelling in Canada – An inside look
Despite a collective interest in modelling public health-care costs in Canada, actuaries have had limited opportunities to get involved in the process. Stafford Dean, Senior Program Officer for Analytics at Alberta Health Services, joins us for the first episode of 2022 and shares an insider’s look at the modelling being done within the public health sector.
R vs. Python vs. EVERYTHING
Actuaries are travelling deeper into the fields of data science and machine learning, where open-source software is widely used. Two of the most popular open-source programming languages used by actuaries are R and Python. The topic of R vs. Python is already hotly debated by many professionals in the field of data science, and still discussed at length in many opinion- and fact-based articles...
