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On 26th June, we had a General Election, and the new EXCOM was formed. The election featured participants from first year and second year contesting for different posts.  On this year’s election, ASSAUD introduced the  Public relation  post, which was formerly under the ICT and Public relation. This post will focus more on ASSAUD cooperate matters.  This year’s ASSAUD General Election results were as follows: S/N ELECTION POST WINNER 1 PRESIDENT Olive M. Kivuyo 2 VICE PRESIDENT Edward Tarsisi 3 GENERAL SECRETARY John W. Kitwika 4 HEAD OF FINANCE Clara G. Mbalase 5 HEAD OF ACADEMICS Augustine Kamba 6 HEAD OF ICT Lissa D. Nzirlu 7 HEAD OF EVENT Rehema I. Temu 8 HEAD OF PUBLIC RELATION Asmaa F...

We are delighted to announce that our ASSAUD blog has been listed among the Top 40 Actuary Blogs & Websites in the World for the third consecutive time. This list is prepared by  Feedspot after a thoroughly research and survey on actuarial blogs and websites in the world. This implies that ASSAUD is internationally recognized as an active and content blog on matters about actuarial science. On the list this year, ASSAUD is ranked No. 23. We are humbled for the recognition and looking forward to get better and better in our sole aim of "creating actuarial aspirants" and being recognized internationally. To see the full list and the criteria for ranking please  Click Here ASSAUD.

ASSAUD together with IFM Actuarial Students Association (IASA), we are proud to bring you the most reputable actuarial students' event in Tanzania, Actuarial Gala Function with the Theme: " The hands of actuaries in the economic recovery post COVID-19 pandemic ". The event will be held on 11th July 2020 at Ngome Holdings, Mwenge Road-Dar es Salaam. Actuarial Gala Function 2020 Actuarial Gala Function is a professional event designed to serve as a room for interaction between actuarial students and corporates to enhance career growth in actuarial professionalism. The industry players will discuss on leveraging actuarial skills set to address the challenges that the ever-dynamic market face particular the world pandemic, by applying theories to the real-world environment. The aim being to exploit the possible mutual benefits in terms of career and employment and also appreciate the role of actuarial science in the market. Following the current world pandemic COV...

On celebrating this year’s International Women’s Day with the theme “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”, we try to explore in brief the progress made by women in field of actuarial science and mathematics. There is no doubt that the number of women in the field has widely increased as more women are in the field. The wide spread women empowering campaigns like Women In STEM done by different associations and institutes like African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has definitely given a positive impact. Focusing on Actuarial field the number of registered actuaries in Actuarial Society of South Africa increased from 15% in 2010 to 21.8% in 2016 and speaking of today, this percent is has been anticipated to increase. Happy Women's Day Actuaries! Prepared by; John Kitwika and Muhanad Suleiman

As it is our custom, Networking Day is a special day that welcomes actuarial science freshers to ASSAUD. It’s a day that people have an opportunity to interact with each other and also giving students an opportunity to interact with Alumni sharing with them experience and views not only about Actuarial science but also with some other issues about life and opportunities in general. Actuarial Networking Day 2019. On 30th November 2019, we had our Networking Event. The massive celebration featured ASSAUD members, Alumni and fellow Actuarial students from IFM, at South Beach Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam. All of us came together to share knowledge and experience about the current actuarial perspective in Tanzania. ASSAUD'President, Head of Academics and Head of Finance (Right to Left) We incorporated sports and games such as beach soccer, cards and swimming to make the event more fun and enhance interaction. This fun part was all about refreshing, making room for students to ...

In recent years, we've experienced new ways to gain insight from data through Data Science. We are able to understand and analyze actual phenomena through the use of techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Information Science. A question arises, Is Data Science related to Actuarial Science? And if so, How? Follow up this interview to understand more! An interview with Sylvera Justine, Data Analyst in Tanzania . 1. What is Data Science? "According to Wikipedia, Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes and algorithms to extract useful information, patterns, insights from data. Data Science has become a well sought skill with someone required to have mathematics, statistics, business acumen, analytical and programming skills. It is among the highest paying jobs  as ranked by Glassdoor in America." 2. Tell us about your journey to become a ...