I upgraded this website to .NET9 at the weekend. That was straightforward, I just had to update Visual Studio 2022 to the latest version and then upgrading the site amounted to just changing the target in its project file. I also tried upgrading the associated function, but it seems (as too often with Microsoft releases) that .NET 9 is not yet really fully available. It doesn't work with functions yet!

Are you an IFoA (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) Fellow or Associate? Are you ready to take the first step to improve your actuarial membership experience? Join the waitlist

A big thank you to all the actuaries who registered interest in NewOrg or the Actuaries Student Union yesterday or today. I'm currently collating and analysing results from the answers to the questions, but hope to get in touch with each of you individually later this week. For IFoA Qualified ...

(This is a follow up to this previous article .) For IFoA qualified actuaries (Fellows and Associates), including those who left the IFoA A new actuarial organisation, with better value for money and less controlling Are you an actuary looking for a new organization that avoids regulatory overreach, values transparency, ...

(This is a follow up to this previous article. on LinkedIn and here on this blog.) Is the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) going too far with its regulation of members? There has been a very active public debate here on LinkedIn over the past week see e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulteggin_actuaries-code-dei-consultation-there-is-activity-7255515189968617472-FyMj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop ...

As IFoA members may know, I am working on a project to improve things by introducing competition into the near monopoly situation that the IFoA has enjoyed for many decades. #actuaries #competition #valueformoney #education #union As some of you already know, I am working on a project to introduce competition ...

I have just upgraded this website from .NET 7 to .NET 8, and also the associated Azure function from .NET 6 in-process to .NET 8 isolated. Upgrading an app service (website) from .NET 7 (or 6) to .NET 8 is pretty straightforward and essentially just involves changing the target framework ...

There is no evidence (at least from this sample of 307 Fellows) that actuarial science graduates or masters students qualify any quicker than students who do other degrees and don't do an actuarial science masters. This is likely to be of concern both to the IFoA and the universities offering such courses. Once again I urge the IFoA to be transparent and publish a detailed study using its full dataset.

Here are the results split by sex in table form: Distribution of Fellowship Travel Time by Sex and graphically, first via histograms: Histograms of Fellowship travel time by sex and secondly by Box Whisker charts (the blue shaded boxes show the interquartile range, which really ought to be what the ...

A summary of the analysis I carried out on a sample of the 2020 to 2022 new qualifiers (Associates and Fellows) of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Associate Travel time: median 5.54 years, mean 6.71 years. Fellow Travel time: median 6.63 years, mean 7.42 years.