Rolly Molisho, ACIA and a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa, joins us on Seeing Beyond Risk to provide insight into the actuarial profession in South Africa and discuss the considerations that are used in credit risk modelling.
5 lessons of in-force management for life insurance
There are many lessons that can be learned from managing an in-force business, making a seasoned in-force management professional an asset to any organization. A well-run organization will ensure that sharing insights with new business onboarding teams is crucial and will put the formal processes in place to do so.
How did we die in 2020 – Canada versus the United States
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...