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Thinking from the practice.
Published openly.

Anthony writes on actuarial technology, AI in financial services, offshore delivery, and the questions the profession is not asking loudly enough. Published on Substack and LinkedIn — direct, first-principles, and occasionally contrarian.

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Articles

Recent writing

Articles are published on Substack and cross-posted to LinkedIn. The first pieces are in preparation — follow on Substack to be notified when they publish.

✦ Coming soon — Substack Offshore Delivery
Why South Africa is the offshore actuarial market the UK has been ignoring
The case for Cape Town over Mumbai — time zones, qualifications, regulatory alignment, and a cultural fit that makes offshoring actually work in practice.
Publishing shortly ✦ Coming soon — Substack Actuarial Technology
Actuarial science has a technology problem — and the profession is not talking about it
Why a discipline capable of building sophisticated stochastic capital models is still running its core processes in Excel — and what the next five years look like.
Publishing shortly ✦ Coming soon — Substack AI & Modelling
What a large language model can — and cannot — do with a Prophet output file
A practical first-principles examination of where AI genuinely adds value in actuarial modelling workflows, and where the hype outpaces the reality.
Publishing shortly
What Anthony writes about

Independent thinking on
the profession's hard questions

Not consensus summaries or regurgitated industry news. First-principles thinking on the questions where the standard answer is worth challenging — technology adoption, offshore delivery models, AI in actuarial practice, and the structural inertia that holds the profession back.

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Actuarial Technology & AI
Practical analysis of how AI, machine learning, and modern data engineering apply to actuarial modelling, reporting, and governance.
Offshore & Outsourced Delivery
The commercial and practical case for offshore actuarial delivery — where it works, where it does not, and how to structure it correctly.
Capital & Regulatory
Commentary on SAM, Solvency II, IFRS 17, and the regulatory frameworks that define how life insurers manage capital and report results.
Contrarian & Independent Views
Occasional pieces where the received wisdom in the profession deserves a first-principles challenge. Reasoned, referenced, and prepared to be wrong.