CAA Weekly News Update – 29th September

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ATTENTION SOA CANDIDATES:

The CAA in association with the SOA will present a webinar on SOA Exam Techniques on Thursday, 14^th October at 5:00pm EST, 4:00pm AST/EDT. Presenters from the SOA will go through all the recent changes to their educational requirements and exams.

Registration information will be shared within the week.

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Something Special: Official virtual launch of NAWA: Network of Actuarial Women and Allies 7th October from 3:00 -5:00pm EDT/AST. 2:00-4:00pm EST.

What else we’re watching:

• CAS: In Focus Virtual Seminar 13^th October
• IFoA: The Growth Mindset for Actuaries – web series, 13^th October – 8^th December
• IAA: International Actuarial Note on IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts 18^th October

What we’re reading:

• IFoA: The Poverty Premium in Insurance
• SOA: Exciting Educational Enhancements
• ICA2023: Call for Abstracts

Climate Corner:

• IFoA: Sustainability Series: Net Zero: Putting Interventions into Practice – 7^th October
• This study suggests that after a forest burns it will take 100 years of regrowth to scrub an amount of CO2 equal to what it produced while burning.
• NY Times: California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions
• The Guardian: Deep impact: the underwater photographers bringing the ocean’s silent struggle to life
• The Guardian: Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’

Food for Thought:

Will we ever strike the right balance that allows thought leaders to express their ideas yet still blocks the bigots and predators?Where do we draw the line? The Atlantic:How much intellectual life is now stifled because of fear of what a poorly worded comment would look like if taken out of context and spread on Twitter?

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