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Welcome to the June edition of the Finance and Investment newsletter. We've had some good feedback about the new design and the content, but if you have something more to say or haven't yet voiced your opinions, please click here and share your views with us.
Risk and Investment conference - last chance to book
21-23 June, The Grand Hotel, Brighton
We have an exciting line up for this year's conference, with some first-rate keynote speakers: Stephen Carver, Cranfield School of Management and Dr Paul Wilmott, Wilmott Associates. In addition to presentations by several working parties, there will be "hot topics" sessions on:
* lessons from the credit and liquidity crunch
* regulatory developments
* implementation lessons learned from the crisis
and
* what next for pension fund risk management?
For more information and a booking form, please click here.
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Risk management failure – the cause of the current economic woe?
SIAS debate - 6.00 pm on 8 June, Staple Inn, London
How did we get into this financial situation? Where to next? These and other questions will be raised at this event next Monday, when a panel of speakers will give their views on the crisis and the audience will be invited to share their thoughts.
The event is open to non-SIAS members as well as members. For more details, please click here.
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Merger news
To find out more about the merger, and details of meetings in your region, please click here.
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SoA/IAA webcast on Market-Consistent Embedded Value
The Society of Actuaries, in conjunction with the Life Section of the IAA, is producing an International webcast on Market-Consistent Embedded Value, with a special focus on internal modelling for MCEV and the effects of the current financial crisis on MCEV. The webcast will take place on 16 June at 10:00 am in three regional time zones. More information on the webcast can be found by clicking here.
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"Just answer the question!"
If you sometimes yell at your PC like Jeremy Paxman, you may be interested in the new search engine making waves: WolframAlpha, which aims to answer questions directly (rather than just retrieving possible sources where an answer might be found.) You may find this useful if you want to seek answers relating to:
* mathematics
* statistics and data analysis
* money and finance
Reviews on the BBC website suggest the trick is entering a search question appropriately to avoid getting the message: “WolframAlpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”!
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