I’ve been away on holiday (Kuala Lumpur, lovely and warm!) for a week. Here are a few interesting articles that caught my eye while I was away. The Morpeth Flood model – Morpeth is a town in the UK that was flooded very badly in 2008. They’ve proposed a newContinue Reading
As if life and general insurance capitals changes weren’t enough, PHIAC has released an initial consultation paper on changes to health insurance standards. In this guest post, health actuaries David Torrance and Ben Ooi have more: PHIAC has released a Capital Standards Review Consultation Package with responses due by 1Continue Reading
Some links that have caught my eye this week: With the focus on the economic crisis in Europe, the beginning of a demographic crisis has slipped under the radar as birth rates plummet, from the Economist. Alex Dunnin analyses the winners and losers from the Productivity Commission’s recommendations on MysuperContinue Reading
With the controversial Stronger Futures laws passing the Senate in the early hours this morning, it seems a good time to write about Aboriginal life expectancy. Aboriginal people have a much lower life expectancy than non Aboriginal people in Australia. At birth Aboriginal men can expect to live about 12Continue Reading
A roundup of the links that caught my eye this week. This week the big news for stats geeks was the release of the Australian census, with lots of news. I haven’t had time to play with the data yet, but here is the link. @mattcowgill points out that inContinue Reading
The Australian Census for 2011 was released this week, and they’ve got some fabulous tools for playing with the data on their website. Here’s my personal infographic:Continue Reading
A roundup of links that I’ve found of interest this week. Some Daniel Kahnemen links: Tim Harford interviews psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Jonah Lehrer from the New Yorker quotes some of Daniel Kahnemen’s research on Why Smart people are Stupid, and a summaryContinue Reading
Reading Bruce Schneier’s new book Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (reviewed here) made me think about the management of a life insurance company using a security lens. And underwriting is the part of a life insurance company’s management that lends itself most to a securityContinue Reading
A roundup of the links that I’ve found interesting this week: Why the Rules of Language Are Both Arbitrary and Essential, Steven Pinker on the false fronts in the language wars between those who argue that the language has defined rules, and you are either correct or incorrect, and thoseContinue Reading
When I was in Norway last year, I took the opportunity to research the experience there of women on Boards – had the sky fallen in after all companies had to appoint at least 40% female Boards? (the quick answer is that nearly everyone in Norway thinks it was aContinue Reading