This month we have the pleasure of interviewing Servaas Houben, who spent a number of years as an actuary in Curacao. Servaas is an international actuary who started his actuarial career in the Netherlands, before moving to Dublin, London, Curacao and now back to the Netherlands. Besides his…

By Mary Pat Campbell Over a decade ago, I wrote my first article on spreadsheet errors. It was titled “To Err Is Human; To Correct, Divine”, and ran in the SOA’s technology section newsletter, detailing the commonality of spreadsheet errors – even among (or, I should say, especially among)…

Farid Flici Farid is an actuary, graduated in 2006 from the National School of Statistics and Applied Economics of Algiers. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the same institution. He joined the Center for Research in Applied Economics in the mid-2012. He created the “Actuarial Demography Team” at…

As I’ve moved through my two decades actuarial career, I’ve noticed that success or failure isn’t necessarily built only on the work or effort itself. Success isn’t necessarily and automatically based on who is the smartest, or who is the fastest, or who has the best skills or the most focused…

They say that if you're aiming for faster, cheaper, and better, you can only choose two. But the Agile principle of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) allows you to start out fast and cheap and then move toward the best version of better with the benefit of acquired insight and experience.

Miller Kingsley Miller is a Fellow of the Nigerian Actuarial Society and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He qualified as a fellow in 2013 in the Life Insurance track. He is also an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He has over a decade of professional work experience,…

César da Rocha Neves, PhD , is Head of the Business Conduct Monitoring Department of the Brazilian Insurance Supervisory Authority (SUSEP) and a Professor of Actuarial Science at Rio de Janeiro State University and Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ)  in Brazil. 

Guest blog By David C. Miller In their book, The Hands-Off Manager, authors Steve Chandler and Duane Black state that the number one reason for quitting that employees cite in exit interviews is “my manager.” Today’s business environment demands that professionals at all levels become…

Guest blog by Mary Pat Campbell, FSA, MAAA, PRM Did you know that a simple spreadsheet formula led to a $6 billion trading loss? Did you know that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act caused a considerable amount of work removing hard-coded rates?

Edwin Mulenga works as a Principal Examiner in the Pension and Insurance Supervision Department at the Reserve Bank of Malawi. He holds a first class MSc in Actuarial Science from Heriot-Watt University and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Malawi.