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The President Rosalind Briggs launched the new term with her SAI presidential Address in the The Alex Hotel Dublin on the 5th of September 2024 You can read her presidential speech here.

The president Declan Lavelle launched the new term at his SAI presidential address in the Alex Hotel on the 21st of September 2022. You can read his presidential speech here https://web.actuaries.ie/press/speeches 

The Demography Committee of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland (SAI) has co-written a paper with the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). Working paper 141 explores ways of adapting the CMI Mortality Projection Model for Irish population data, areas to consider when doing so and the likely challenges of such work. The paper also considers the potential impact on life expectancy of adapting the Model to use Irish population data.

The paper considers two approaches:

The Demography Committee of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland is pleased to present the results of the analytical review of methodologies in projecting best estimate mortality improvements for the Irish population. 

This paper summarises the analytical review performed by the Demography Committee in respect of a range of potential mortality improvement models in the context of best estimate, mortality improvement projections

 

The Demography Committee has prepared a report and recommendations following a review of the mortality assumptions used in converting a retirement fund into an annuity as prescribed in the following Actuarial Standards of Practice:

Paul O'Faherty presented his Presidential Address on 22nd September.

Paul chose the theme of “Relevance in a time of change and turmoil” and opened by asking the question, “Through all the economic turmoil in Ireland, it’s certainly worth asking ourselves individually and collectively as actuaries - how relevant have we been in these most difficult of times?”