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What does best practice scenario testing look like?
As insurance companies start to implement ICAAP ahead of the 1 January 2013 deadline next year, they are thinking through what best practice looks like; not necessarily to implement it now, but to try to move in the right direction. One aspect of the new standards which is new from a regulatoryContinue Reading
Activity based working – improving on the city
It’s a trend that’s sweeping the Sydney CBD. Activity Based working is a concept of different types of spaces, depending on what work you are doing. There are quiet spaces, project desks, meeting rooms with fabulous IT setups, and cafe style seating around the kitchen space. The trick is that theContinue Reading
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman is one of those books to read slowly, and reread multiple times. It is full of fascinating and counterintuitive facts about how we think. That makes it sound dense. It isn’t. I found it very easy to read, devouring it in great gulps,Continue Reading
Monday Links
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
New Health insurance capital standards
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
Tuesday Links
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
Aboriginal life expectancy – how big is the gap?
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
Monday Links
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
Quick hit: Census infographic
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
Monday Links
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