COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

The Friday Report – Issue 68

The Friday Report is our regular update (currently monthly) with a summary of the key papers and analyses that we’ve looked at recently. In Friday Report 68 we report on:

  • FDA authorisation of vaccines for children
  • Omicron-specific vaccine – Moderna’s successful trials
  • Prevalence of sub-variants
  • Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19
  • Immune boosting by Omicron – effect of SARS-CoV-2 exposure
  • Clinical outcomes for Omicron vs Delta
  • Neurodevelopmental problems following exposure to COVID whilst in the womb
  • Effectiveness of Evushield during the US Omicron surge
  • Risk of Long COVID – Delta vs Omicron
  • Higher IFRs shown in less developed countries
  • Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
  • UK stats on infectivity and hospital admissions

And finally – a new way to detect COVID-19 that may sound barking mad …

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Adele Groyer

Research and Analytics Actuary - Gen Re

Adele Groyer is a Research and Analytics Actuary at Gen Re. She was previously responsible for the UK and Ireland pricing team, conducting general research and producing client-specific quotations for Life, Disability, Long Term Care and Critical Illness business. She is a member of the CMI Assurances Committee. Before joining Gen Re in 2008, she worked for Old Mutual in South Africa. Adele holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town and became a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2005.

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John Roberts

Independent Consultant

John is an independent consultant who has spent 37 years in the life industry, including 17 years at Canada Life and more recently 8 years at Zurich Insurance Group, where he was part of the team that established its corporate risk business, now well established in the market. Following that he was Head of the Life Pricing team at Zurich for 5 years, overseeing a wide range of wealth and protection propositions.

At Zurich he helped establish its small pension scheme longevity swap proposition, which involved setting up simultaneous reinsurance transactions to mirror the client contracts. He has most recently continued with this line of interest as a consultant, supporting Lloyds Banking Group in establishing its first longevity swap transactions.

John is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

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