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COVID-19 Weekly Update – June 4

Dear Colleagues,

We hope you are all staying safe. Remember that vaccines take about two weeks to become effective. Also, one must still practise the COVID-19 protocols. Social distancing, mask wearing and sanitising are all still essential until the virus spread is under control.

We have not seen a significant reduction in new cases but there has been a significant increase in deaths.

Suggested Weekend Reading:

Remember to share any articles of interest and continue to provide feedback. 

Please visit our website and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Stay safe and be happy,

Your News Team: Shubhash, Betty, Pedro and Brian

The information on this page does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the CAA. Data included in graphs has been obtained from several sources the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed by the CAA. The CAA assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of content contained in any linked site.

COVID-19 Update – December 18

Season Greetings to our Members, Colleagues and Friends.

This is our last update for 2020. We will resume posting on the 5th of January 2021 with the next COVID-19 update on the 8th of January. We look forward to continuing our meaningful rapport in 2021.

We encourage you to access our conference presentations on actuview. Please send us your comments, especially on the pre-recorded sessions.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our festive season is going to be very different than what we are accustomed too. We will still enjoy time with our loved ones though this year some get-togethers will be by Zoom.

Please visit our website, Facebook page and LinkedIn page.

Thank you. Stay safe and happy.

Shubhash Gosine, Betty Black, Pedro Medford, Brian Blake and other contributors in 2020.

The information on this page does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the CAA. Data included in graphs has been obtained from several sources the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed by the CAA. The CAA assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of content contained in any linked site.

News Update – December 11

Dear Colleagues,

We took a break for our Virtual Conference. We hope that you were able to attend and that you enjoyed all the sessions. We wish to keep the dialogue going, especially on the current topics and the thought-provoking presentations.  The CAA thanks the participants, presenters, sponsors and organisers.

All presentations are now available on actuview. All members have been given access codes. If you are unable to recall your code then please search your inbox for “your actuview code”.

We also have quite a few presentations that were pre-recorded as we could not fit them all in the live sessions. We would appreciate your feedback to share with those presenters.

I have deliberately left out weekend reading as I encourage everyone to explore our sessions.

Enjoy your weekend.

Please visit our website, Facebook page and LinkedIn page.

Thank you.

Shubhash Gosine

The information on this page does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the CAA. Data included in graphs has been obtained from several sources the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed by the CAA. The CAA assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of content contained in any linked site.

News Update – December 8

Hello Everyone,

We hope you all attended our highly successful conference last week! Keep watching our website and our actuview page for additional material coming this week.

We’ve all been focused on Conference and may have missed a very important milestone for one of our long-serving members. Here’s a feature from Jamaica’s Gleaner newspaper of last Monday.

Congratulations to Astor Duggan, his team, and all those who preceded them, who shaped Duggan Consulting Ltd. into the highly respected firm it is today.

Best Regards,

Shubhash & Betty

COVID-19 Update – November 20

Dear Colleagues,

Please note our Covid-19 Update is on Friday. Tuesday is allocated for CAA and other Actuarial News.

Weekend reading:

Keep sending comments and feedback. They are greatly appreciated.

Please visit our website, Facebook page and LinkedIn page.

Thank you.

Shubhash Gosine

The information on this page does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the CAA. Data included in graphs has been obtained from several sources the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed by the CAA. The CAA assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of content contained in any linked site.

Actuarial Updates – November 17

Actuarial News & Articles:

Virtual Meetings and Webinars:

Registration Now Open!

Exciting Programme with speakers from virtually everywhere!

Please visit our website, Facebook page and LinkedIn page.

Best Regards,

Shubhash & Betty

The information on this page does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the CAA. Data included in graphs has been obtained from several sources the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed by the CAA. The CAA assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of content contained in any linked site.

CAA 30th Annual Conference

  • Over Ten Sessions Live-Streamed
  • Pre-recorded Sessions on Demand through ActuView, the actuarial media platform
  • Well-known Speakers from Virtually Everywhere
  • Student and Member Sessions
  • Virtual Social Activities and Surprises
  • Opportunity to earn CPD credits
  • Content relevant to Actuaries and Non-actuaries

Live Sessions Include:

Keynote Session: Hon. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and other prominent professionals from virtually everywhere hold a Round Table Discussion on: Achieving a Greener, Smarter, Fairer Recovery and Resilience – Moving from Talk to Action
  • Presidents of Global Actuarial Bodies participate in a Presidents’ Town Hall
  • Diversity of Thought, Chapter Six: Promoting Inclusion in the Actuarial Profession: Tonya Manning President, IAA; Marjorie Ngwenya, Past President IFoA; Cathy Lyn, Past President CAA, Past Chair IACA
  • Statistical Perspective of COVID-19 and Analysis: Sylvain Goulet, Eckler Ltd.; Ronald Richman, QED (Pty) Ltd.
  • Actuaries Giving Back: Nazir Valani, Valani Global; Mike McLaughlin, Trees that Feed Foundation
  • Actuaries Climate Indices and Climate Change: Louise Pryor, President Elect IFoA; Steve Kolk, CAS
  • Artificial Intelligence & Ethics: Caribbean and Dutch perspectives
  • Demystifying Data Science Buzzwords

THANKS TO OUR LOYAL SPONSORS!

To Our Readers – October 27

Thank you for reading our blog. We regularly scour the web to find interesting links so you don’t have to. We hate to disappoint you but, between now and the end of the year, we’ll be cutting back to two posts every week. COVID-19 updates on Fridays and other news on Wednesdays. You can also catch up on some of our past posts by visiting our Homepage.


Conference is just around the corner and we’re doing all we can to make it just as engaging as always. Be prepared for a few surprises – including the registration!  Live sessions will take place between 30th November and 4th December but we’ll start uploading pre-recorded sessions to ActuView from the week before. All members received ActuView codes several months ago. If you’ve mislaid yours let us know and we’ll resend it.


More details on our 30th Annual Conference coming soon!