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New course: Finance for Non-finance Professionals

Great news! There is a new course available on our learning platform.

I was initially sceptical about "Finance for Non-finance Professionals" because finance sounds less fun than actuarial science. However, the financial and actuarial worlds do collide, and actuaries need to understand finance.

Luckily, Arshad makes learning finance easy to …

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Actuarial learning platform - beta launch

We're excited to share that we've just launched the beta version of our actuarial learning platform.

The platform is designed to make actuarial concepts easier to understand through short, focused lessons combined with questions and numerical exercises. The goal is simple: clear explanations, practical intuition, and learning that actually sticks. …

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Visualizing actuarial models with the Graph View

Actuarial cash flow models can quickly become complex, with dozens of interdependent variables. When that happens, it's easy to get lost in the code. That's where Graph View, a new feature in the cashflower Python package, comes in.

Graph View lets you visualize your entire model, making it …

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Longevity risk in Solvency II

In this series of posts, we explore how to calculate various capital requirements that make up the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) according to Solvency II regulations.

In this post, we focus on longevity risk. We'll build a simple actuarial model for an annuity product using Python's cashflower package. Our goal …

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Mortality risk in Solvency II

In this series of posts, we explore how to calculate the capital requirements that make up the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) under Solvency II regulation.

In this specific article, we focus on mortality risk. We'll demonstrate how to build a simple actuarial model for a term life insurance product using …