Life Insurance
Risk vs Discrimination in Life Insurance
From time to time, I find myself explaining how insurers allow for risk in insurance pricing, product design and underwriting, particularly as this can be seen as a form of…
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Professionalism
Technical Paper: Innovative Income Streams
The Retirement Income Working Group (RIWG) has produced a new version of a Technical Paper (TP), “Innovative Income Streams”. It takes account of some interesting innovations in lifetime income stream…
Health
Balancing Care and Sustainability: The Actuary’s Role in Injury and Disability Schemes
Australia’s injury and disability scheme system is complex. There are 11 different workers compensation schemes, eight compulsory third party (CTP) schemes and several other injury schemes, including the National Disability…
Career Development
Actuaries Working in New Fields
In 2024, approximately 40% of members of the Actuaries Institute report their primary practice area to be outside of insurance. In the first article of this series that explores these…
Education
Determination and Dedication: Semester 2 Results
The Actuaries Institute’s Education Team is dedicated to supporting members in qualifying for and succeeding in their actuarial careers through our student-centric education program. Our tutorials, assignments, and real-life examples…
Life Insurance
Release of Australian Life Table 2020–22
As the Australian Government Actuary (AGA), I am pleased to bring to your attention the publication of the latest Australian Life Table (ALT) covering the years 2020 to 2022 (ALT2020–22).
Covid-19 Blog
Mortality in First Eight Months of 2024 2% Higher Than Predicted
In their latest article, the Mortality Working Group shares excess mortality analysis for the first eight months of 2024. In summary For the first eight months of 2024, against…
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Data Science
ConverseAI: Data Science Applications in Superannuation
In the latest episode of ConverseAI, host Tong Zhang speaks with Estelle Liu about how data science can help address key challenges in superannuation, including large-scale projections, understanding customer lifetime…
Data Science
Applications and Development
In our latest episode of ConverseAI, host Aidan Sussman chats with actuaries Ean Chan and Minh Phan, and data scientist William Zheng on large language model (LLM) applications they…
Data Science
The Actuarial Algorithm
In our latest episode of ConverseAI, host Meg Yang chats with industry experts Jacky Poon, Jon Shen, and Andres Villegas Ramirez on the integration of generative AI within the actuarial…
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