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Actuarial Science Section & Centre for Actuarial ResearchResearch Report 2006Head of Section: Dr S. Kendal Director of the Centre for Actuarial Research: Professor R.E. Dorrington School Profile The section produces about 20% of all South African actuaries. Approximately 60% of our graduates go on to complete the professional examinations to qualify as actuaries, which is one of the highest qualification rates of any university in South Africa. In 2001 we became the second university in the world to have postgraduate courses recognised for exemption from the professional examinations, and currently have more courses recognised for exemption purposes than any other university. The Centre for Actuarial Research was established in 2001. It brings together multi-disciplinary teams to build capacity, improve techniques and produce independent research in the following areas:
The Centre actively promotes the collaboration of people with research interests in demography, actuarial science, social security, economics, finance and public sector policy. In addition, the Centre has been home to the programme in demography with both masters and PhD students. The Centre for Actuarial Research at the University of Cape Town is the only unit of its kind at an African university. School Statistics Permanent and long-term contract staff
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Research Fields and Staff Professor R.E. Dorrington Demography; mortality; fertility; HIV/AIDS modelling; population estimation and projection Dr S. Kendal The impact of HIV/AIDS on retirement funds and employee benefits; measuring and managing retirement product risk; taxation of retirement funds Associate Professor I.L. MacDonald Applied probability; new time series models; mathematical finance Dr T.A. Moultrie Fertility; statistical analysis of census and survey data; modelling of birth intervals; contraception use and adoption; HIV/AIDS Ms S. Ramjee Health care product design and financing; medical price indices Mr M. Ncube Living annuities, dynamic financial analysis of insurance companies Mr L. Johnson HIV/AIDS modelling; epidemiology of STDs Ms D. Budlender Gender budgeting; costing social security benefits; labour/employment; poverty Contact Details Actuarial Science Postal Address: Actuarial Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701 Telephone: +27 21 650 2475 Fax: +27 21 689 7580 E-mail: Shieyaam.Jacobs@uct.ac.za Web: http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/actuarialscience/ Centre for Actuarial Research Postal Address: Actuarial Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701 Telephone: +27 21 650 2475 Fax: +27 21 689 7580 E-mail: care@commerce@uct.ac.za Web: http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/Demography/ and http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/care/ Research Output Articles in peer-reviewed journals Johnson, L.F. and Dorrington, R.E. 2006. Modelling the demographic impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the likely impact of interventions. Demographic Research, 14(22): 541-574. Moultrie, T. 2006. The Demography of South Africa [Review]. Population Studies, 60(2): 233-242. Published Conference Abstracts Hallett, T.B., Aberle-Grasse, J., Dorrington, R.E., Bello, G. and Boulos, L.M. 2006. Declines in HIV prevelance can be associated with changing sexual behavious in Uganda, urban Kenya, Zimbabwe, and urban Haiti. 82: i1-i8. EXTENSION AND DEVELOPMENT WORK Dorrington, R.E. Johnson, L., Bradshaw, D. and Daniel, T.-J. 2006. The Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. National and Provisional Indicators for 2006. Published jointly by the Centre for Actuarial Research, UCT, the Medical Research Council, and the Actuarial Society of South Africa, Cape Town. ISBN 0-7992 2322-0. Department of Statistical Sciences Please refer to the Faculty of Science report Yüklə 255,6 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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