The pandemic has thrown various data and statistics into public discourse, but with little time taken to explain them and differentiate them, which can lead to confusion.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries COVID Action Taskforce have produced a useful document which explains the various statistics, ratios and data in common use.
Thanks to authors L.R. Lopes Junior, S. Aggarwal and M. Qazvini
We were devastated to hear of Adele Groyer’s death. Adele was already well known to many actuaries both in Gen Re and more widely from her contribution to the CMI, but became one of our most prominent collaborators...
Stuart made a guest appearance on the Independent SAGE weekly briefing to give a presentation on excess deaths. The discussion covered what we mean by excess deaths and different ways of measuring these, whether by...
Background We have consistently advocated the use of excess deaths as the best measure of the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic. Excess deaths are calculated by comparing actual mortality to a reference...
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