The Actuarial Society of South Africa reckons that some 530, 000 South Africans were infected last year and expects the number of new infections to stay the same in the next few years.

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Louise Francis is the president of Francis Analytics and Actuarial Data Mining, and is vice president of research, as well as a fellow, of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

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To that end, the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society hosted a call for essays, " Systemic Risk, Financial Reform, and Moving Forward from the Financial Crisis, " seeking to find solutions that would prevent a future systemic meltdown.

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