A late Christmas present for ERM students

A late Christmas present for ERM students

As you might have seen, I’ve finally updated my website, www.paulsweeting.com.  This is where I will be adding blog posts on various topics, but there is also something new: an education section allowing students of ST9 – the enterprise risk management...
The reluctant leader

The reluctant leader

This summer I took over as head of actuarial science at the University of Kent.  I have to admit, part of me was not looking forward to this.   I returned to full-time academia to teach and to carry out research, not to get involved in management and administration. ...
The (un)importance of cash flows

The (un)importance of cash flows

I’m seeing a lot of discussion on defined benefit cash flows at the moment. Some of the commentary on the importance of cash flows is sensible; some is questionable; and some is plain wrong. What do we mean by cash flows? When talking about cash flows for a...