Sessional Meetings and Podcasts
This channel contains recordings from sessional meetings as well as podcasts and other audio material of value to actuaries and actuarial students in South Africa.
Retirement Reform - National Treasury Sessional Meeting
This channel contains recordings from sessional meetings as well as podcasts and other audio material of value to actuaries and actuarial students in South Africa.
Wider Fields – Data Science Sessional Meeting
This channel contains recordings from sessional meetings as well as podcasts and other audio material of value to actuaries and actuarial students in South Africa.
Nicola Comninos (Head: Equities, Equity Derivatives & BI JSE)
Investment Seminar: Nicola Comninos, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), heads up Equities, Equity Derivatives and Business Intelligence at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). She is currently responsible for Equities and Equity Derivatives product management, market and product innovation, client partnerships and new business origination as well as the JSE Business Intelligence…
Tom Plaistowe (Senior Executive: Infrastructure and Development Assets OMIG)
Investment Seminar: Tom is currently responsible for the appraisal, analysis, and portfolio management of infrastructure and development assets for the Old Mutual Group. He is Chairman of the African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), a company jointly owned by Old Mutual Investment Group and Macquarie Bank, which manages a range of…
Brandon Horwitz (IFoA Finance & Investment Board Chairman)
Investment Seminar: Brandon is a qualified actuary with over 14 years' experience in financial services including: retail financial advice/wealth management; investment product development; regulation; institutional investment consulting; investment banking and asset management. Brandon currently works at HSBC Bank Plc as Head of Financial Planning where his team is responsible for…
Henk Langenhoven (Chief economist SEIFSA)
Investment Seminar: Henk Langenhoven joined SEIFSA in October 2011 as Chief Economist. He has previously worked as the Executive Director of the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, as Economist at the same organisation, as a Lecturer in Economics at Stellenbosch University and as an Economist in the Office…
Andrew C. Canter (CIO of Futuregrowth)
Investment Seminar: Andrew Canter has been with Futuregrowth Asset Management, the fixed interest boutique of OMIGSA, since 1998. He is a Director and Chief Investment Officer of Futuregrowth, and is Chairman of the Credit Committee and Investment Committee. Andrew was a founding Board member of CFA South Africa, and he…
Mr. François Groepe (Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank)
Investment Seminar: Franscois Groepe was first appointed by the President of the South Africa to Board of the South African Reserve Bank (‘SARB’) in July 2004 as a Non-Executive Director and joined the Executive of the SARB as Deputy Governor in January 2012. He serves as chairman of both the…
Medical scheme investments
Health CPD Seminar: Medical scheme investments - why adopt conservative approach? Presented by Roshan Bhana who holds a Bachelor of Economic Science degree from the University of Witwatersrand and is a fellow of both the Institute of Actuarial Society of South Africa since January 2007. He is currently the Head…
Measuring in-hospital claim volatility for more accurate claim forecasting
Health CPD Seminar: Measuring in-hospital claim volatility for more accurate claim forecasting. The presentation considers the concept of risk pools and risk pooling that goes to the heart of the business of a medical scheme. Risk pool arguments have been used in the past by the regular to limit medical…
Predictive modelling of future healthcare outcomes.
Health CPD Seminar: Predictive modelling of future healthcare outcomes. Presented by Sarah Bennet and Stefan Strydom.
Update on Competition Commission Submissions
Health CPD Seminar: Update on Competition Commission Submissions. Presented by Barry Childs who is a joint CEO of Insight Actuaries & Consultants.
Low cost health insurance plans
Health CPD Seminar: Low cost health insurance plans - models in Africa and the rest of the World: In theory the low cost medical insurance market is a huge untapped opportunity across large parts of the World, where volumes should compensate for lower premiums and margins. But it has proven…
Medical insurance
Health CPD Seminar: Medical insurance. An affordable means to widening the Medical aid net and brief reflection on moral philosophy in understanding the need for change. - Presented by Richard Blackman who is currently a Founder/Principal shareholder/ Key individual of Day1 Health (Pty) Ltd since 2002 and the Founder/Principal shareholder…
Cost drivers and low cost benefit options
Health CPD Seminar: Cost drivers and low cost benefit options - Presented by Emile Stipp who is a health care actuary with more than 18 years' experience.
Low cost benefit option framework
Health CPD Seminar: Low cost benefit option framework - The presentation today provides background to the Low Cost Benefit option framework that the Council has embarked upon and the progress to date regarding the framework - Presented by Mr Paresh Prema who is a qualified Actuary and is the general…
LIMS revisited
Health CPD Seminar: LIMS revisited - The Low Income Medical Scheme (LIMS) consultative forum investigated the requirements of the low income market and proposed a framework for extending coverage. The Finmark Trust has also done some work in this space. My talk will revisit some of this prior work to…
The Role of the Appointed Actuary and CRO
2015 Life Assurence Seminar: "The Role of the Appointed Actuary and CRO" - Presented by Jan Lubbe MMI CRO, Craig Falconer and consultant stat act, David Jewell AA and CRO.
An initial study into the lapse experience of new generation risk products
2015 Life Assurence Seminar: "An initial study into the lapse experience of new generation risk products" - Presented by Stephen Burgess and Richard van der Berg.
Regulatory Update
2015 Life Assurence Seminar: "Regulatory Update" - Presented by Ian Marshall.