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For those who are not comfortable with downloading and manipulating Excel files, I have written a web version of version 2.1 of D avid Wilkie's model (the slightly earlier version than the 2.2 version published yesterday) for #Covid19. Click here to use the web model. It is not as flexible ...

Further to previous posts, here are files for an updated version (2.2) of David Wilkie's model for #Covid19: David writes: I am an actuary, quite familiar with epidemiological models, which can be used in income protection insurance (IPI), which many doctors/GPs will be familiar with. Using the IPI methodology I ...

For those unable to not wanting to log in to LinkedIn, Bulletin 3 from the Covid-19 Actuaries' Response Group can be downloaded from here .

For those who can't or don't want to login to Linked In to read this 2nd bulletin, entitled "Has over half of the UK population already been exposed to Covid19?", you can download it at the following link: https://cdn.buttercms.com/Jwr6tuX5T4lyG67ApjIU

My (InQA Limited and before that Watson Wyatt) colleague Professor David Wilkie has produced an Excel model to help actuaries and any one else who is interested model the possible spread of #Covid-19, and has asked me to put the files here so that they are readily available without anyone ...

Some people have asked to be able to read the Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group's paper of 24 March 2020, written in response to the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team's paper of 16 March, which is otherwise only accessible via logging in to LinkedIn. A copy may be downloaded from Download ...

(Like all my posts on this blog, these are my personal observations, made in a personal capacity and not representative of any employer or organisation I am associated with.) The UK government has stated that they are taking decisions based on scientific and medical advice. In particular, recent decisions have ...

I gave a presentation to the Channel Islands Actuarial Association earlier today, and a similar one earlier this year to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society. I provided copies of the materials I used to those two Societies, but I have had a few requests for a copy from other people: ...

Set up a custom dashboard showing the length of your queues One of the common use cases for an Azure function is to run on a timer to check the status of one or more Azure queues. You can do this very easily via an Azure v2 function because these ...

Further to this article, Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 on 23 September.