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The economic impacts of COVID-19: Digest 3
3 December 2020
Volunteers of the ICAT workstream F&I1 and the Economics MIG have joined forces to produce the following ‘round-up’ of activity capturing interesting news and events over the last month.
These updates will appear in the monthly ICAT Newsletter with links on the Economics MIG webpage.
CMI notes over 5,000 excess deaths in second wave
1 December 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing frequent UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. The latest update covers week 47 of 2020 (14 November to 20 November) based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 1 December 2020.
The key points of this update are:
F&I Lifelong Learning subcommittee want to hear from you!!
30 November 2020
As the world adapts to a new way of working, we want to make sure that the Finance and Investment (F&I) program of events being put forward for our members is right for you; both in terms of content and delivery. We would be very grateful if you could spend just 5 minutes of your time completing the attached survey, the results of which will feed in to our events programming for both next year and beyond.
Health & Care Board update – October 2020
27 November 2020
Anna Spender, Health & Care Board Member provides an update.
International Data Source Log
25 November 2020
"You can have data without information, but there is no information without data" – Anon
As part of the IFoA response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a national narrative survey was sent out to gauge international responses to the pandemic. Following this, the PAN2 National narratives workstream was formed as part of the ICAT (IFoA Covid-19 Action Taskforce) to compare various impacts of the pandemic with an international context.
CMI’s 2020 excess deaths estimate reaches new high
24 November 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing frequent UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. The latest update covers week 46 of 2020 (7 November to 13 November) based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 24 November 2020.
The key points of this update are:
The Actuaries Institute Australia: Climate Change – Information Note for Appointed Actuaries
24 November 2020
There has been increasing interest from regulators and investors over recent years in how financial institutions are managing their climate risks. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (“APRA”) has made it clear that companies cannot ignore risks just because they are long term, because the time horizon is uncertain, or because there is uncertainty about future government policy.
Message from Matt Cann, Chair of the Risk Management Lifelong Learning Committee
24 November 2020
Thank you
F&I Global members - Have your say!
24 November 2020
The IFoA's Finance and Investment Board supports and promotes the interests of members in the finance and investment industries, in accordance with the IFoA’s strategic objectives. To provide evidence to guide this support, the Board has asked the F&I Global Subcommittee to gather information on the international members of the IFoA who work or have an interest in this area. The short survey available on the following link has been designed as a first step in this process. Obviously, the more people who respond to this survey the better, and the more comments that are provided then the
Join these Linkedin groups now to improve the world of Risk Management!
24 November 2020
New Risk Management subgroups have been launched on Linkedin, for the Risk Management community.
In order to facilitate engagement and activities across the Risk Management community we have created the following sub-groups on Linkedin. Please join these groups to get your voice heard, to share your ideas, to help other members with topical issues and generally improve the world of Risk Management.
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