Broadstone and Buck comment on the October PPF 7800 Index & more…Keep up with what has been happening this week in our latest actuary news round-up…
Zedra acquire Clear Pen Solutions
Deal follows the acquisitions of Inside Pensions Ltd, PTL Governance Limited and Caledonian Trustees Limited, as well as the launch of ZEDRA’s Pensions & Incentives offering. Announcement follows the appointment of Kim Nash as Managing Director of ZEDRA Governance (formerly PTL) from 1st November.
How machine learning can be applied to actuarial and pricing workflows
Advances in technology is making applying machine learning to pricing processes in insurance easier. According to Akur8, actuaries can benefit greatly from its adoption.
Broadstone and Buck comment on the October PPF 7800 Index
Broadstone and Buck comment on the October update of the PPF 7800 Index which finds that at the end of September the aggregate surplus increased over the month from £313.8 billion at the end of August to £374.5bn by the end of September.
Industry seeks more convergence between actuarial and data science, says Akur8
According to Akur8’s first Global Pricing Survey, 83% of key players in the insurance pricing community believe the convergence between actuarial and data science would be highly valuable to their team in the future.
Iceland tops in Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index 2022
The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index benchmarks 44 retirement income systems around the world, highlighting challenges and opportunities within each. This year Mercer have added Portugal to the mix, as well as using updated data from OECD and the UN World Population Prospects 2022.
