Can you also model swimwear?

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“Can you also model swimwear?” my friend asked after the Big Four consultants had confidently closed their Solvency II implementation pitch with, “We can model anything.”

Can you also model swimwear?

Suffice to say, it was a tough crowd that day. He did not get fired, and we had something to laugh about for months — years, even.


We model based on what we see, observe and measure. Role models, fashion models, actuarial models, economic models, climate models. Increasingly abstract, like the imitations on the wall of Plato’s cave.

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Loudina Erasmus MSc AAG LLM

Lid van het bestuur van het Koninklijk Actuarieel Genootschap en het Actuarieel Instituut.