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While Trump continues to sue to try to stop the veritable locomotive chugging toward Joe Biden’s inauguration, Biden’s staff announced a COVID task force:
As expected, the board’s three co-chairs are Marcella Nunez-Smith, a Yale physician and researcher; Vivek Murthy, a former U.S. surgeon general; and David Kessler, a...
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The Actuarial Outpost, as it was, is finally dead. For actuarial chatter, join us at Go Actuary.
For those who used to keep up with my “watch” threads, I will be sharing the links on my blogs for now. I’m looking for a content management solution for what I...
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The leaves have changed color (or completely fallen off the trees) so that means it’s time for the Social Security Administration to announce the COLAs (cost-of-living adjustments) for benefits in 2021:
PLANSPONSOR: Social Security Announces COLA for 2021
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will...
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Let’s take a look at U.S. COVID mortality, and some other COVID-related issues.
Using data from the CDC, the official (provisional) COVID death count is 204,613 as of 16 October 2020.
With total deaths of 2,226,473 recorded...
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People who have been reading me for a long time know that I like to keep a record on the Actuarial Outpost, but that site’s nameservers seem to have gotten hijacked by a domain-squatting operation.
I know one workaround: go directly to their IP address of 204.232.242.165. I...
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Yes, this is going to get quite technical as I go down farther in this post, but I will start with a piece somebody forwarded to me, which explains the issue in words. I think many people are more comfortable thinking in words than numbers, though that is not necessarily...
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Five years ago, I had run a series of posts on basic concepts that are key in valuing public pension promises.
I want to re-run a few of these over the next few Fridays, with data updates where applicable, and some editing.
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Meep looks at one of the most-used COVID-19 models for projections in the U.S. Models can have a lot of uncertainty in them, and these certainly do. The point of the models are as tools to look at potential results.
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Well, are you in Hubei province right now?
You should look at this map, and think about the numbers. I will link far more stories at the end of the post, but I want to make a specific point to discuss up here.
Yes, it sounds like this coronavirus is pretty...
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Back in July 2018, the Actuarial Standards Board had a draft revision of ASOP 4. I will quote a few of my old comments, in a moment.
A quick reminder: Actuarial Standard of Practice 4 is currently titled “Measuring Pension Obligations and Determining Pension Plan Costs or Contributions”,...
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