CAA Weekly News Update -8th July

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The IAC presents Insurance Master Class: Pensions & Annuities by CAA Member Constance Hall 14^th-15^th July

The Central Bank of Barbados’ Caribbean Economic Forum, Solving the Ageing Population Crisis in the Caribbean, took place this week. Speakers included the CAA’s Derek Osborne and Prof.  Karl Theodore, who we will remember from our 2018 Conference.

Registration is now open for Convention A which takes place 19^th-23^rd September.The Programme includes content from Cathy Lyn and her Diversity team and much more. Special rates are available for actuview users. A free subscription to actuview is available to all our members. Please contact our Secretariat if you have not received, or have mislaid, your actuview access code.

Registration is also open for IABA’s 2022 Annual Meeting: Reunited. Reignited 11^th-13^th August

What else we’re watching & reading:

• Insurance Journal: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Insurance Industry (Carrier Management) 12^th July
• SOA: Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers Webcast 20^th July
• The Actuary (SOA): The SOA’s IFRI Certificate Program
• COMMUNIQUÉ issued at the conclusion of the Forty Third Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community 3-5 July 2022
• Loop: Jamaican-born nurse receives US Presidential Medal of Freedom
• IFoA: Sessional Meeting: Data and Modelling Considerations for mental health in life insurance 11^th July
• SOA: Use of health and wellness data in L&H risk assessment 11^th July (Facebook webcast)
• IFoA: Applying AI – From Concept to Practice 19^th July
• SOA: Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers Webcast 20^th July
• IFoA: GIRO 2022 Call for Speakers deadline 27^th July
• 57th Actuarial Research Conference 3^rd-6^th August
• ALPFA 2022 Convention 7^th-10^th  August – during which OLA will celebrate their 5^th Anniversary

Climate Corner:

• The Actuary (IFoA): Climate change guidance published for actuaries
• CAS Research Council Issues Request for Proposals – The Impacts of Climate Change
• Insurance Journal: Around the World: Insurance, Climate Change, Disclosures, and Risk 14^th July
• ActuarialPost: Insurers cannot lose focus on combating climate change
• The Atlantic: The World Is Turning Back to Coal
• CAS/CIA: 2022 Climate Risk Seminar 19^th-21^st July

Infection Surveillance:

• SOA: Emerging Long Term COVID-19 Trends Webcast 28^th July
• SOA: Pandemics & Paradigm Shifts: ERM in an Intensely Dynamic World Webcast 31^st August
• The Guardian: Are pockets of Covid in the gut causing long-term symptoms?
• Loop: WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’
• NatGeo: How contagious is monkeypox—and should you get a vaccine? Here’s the latest.
• Reuters Caribbean coronavirus tracker

Thought for Today:

NBC Chicago: How the Highland Park Shooting Suspect Was Able to Legally Purchase Weapons

Just for Fun:

The New Yorker: Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five

Save the Date:

• International Conference on Inclusive Insurance 24^th-28^th October, scheduled for Kingston, Jamaica.
• 2022 SOA ImpACT Conference 26^th-28^th October
• CAS Annual Meeting 6^th-9^th November

CAA CONFERENCE 2022 – 7^th-9^th DECEMBER – BARBADOS

Students:

• SOA Exams
• CAS Fall Exams
• IFoA Exams
• CIA New Pathways
• The CAA’s Stephen Alleyne Memorial Scholarship
• McLaughlins & Actuarial Foundation’s Caribbean Actuarial Scholarship
• Andrew Long, Norbert Fullerton & IFoA Foundation’s Fullerton-Long Caribbean Scholarship
• Insurance Association of the Caribbean Scholarship
• Other UWI Scholarships & Bursaries
• Society of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society Introduce Needs-Based Exam Reimbursement Pilot Program for Actuarial Candidates
• CAA Exam Refund Programme

Reminders:

Did you miss our recent webinars Climate Change: Emerging Risks and Opportunities and Social Security: What Lies Ahead? Watch them anytime on our YouTube Channel.

Early Bird Registration for The 2023 International Congress of Actuaries: Bridge to Tomorrow, which takes place in Sydney, Australia, is now open.

The IAA Bursary Congress Fund is available to provide some financial support facilitating the participation of interested candidates complying with the characteristics of the bursary selection process. Bursaries will be allocated at the discretion of the IAA Advice & Assistance ICA 2023 Bursary Task Force and may be for only part of the expected costs.

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