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(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.

Further to my previous article with an analysis of the time taken to qualify by recent (2020-2022) new Fellows and Associates of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, you can try a simulation of how long it might take you to qualify here.

For security reasons, you should not be storing production setting values in source control. But this means that by default, you don't have your own backup of the values for your live, production settings. What if you want to store a copy of your settings (e.g. along with the artifacts) ...

I was able to migrate a legacy project using .net framework and entity framework to .NET 7 and EFCore relatively easily. EFCore Power Tools was very useful in doing a first draft of model code from the existing database.