Other Publications (selection)

  1. ‘But what hope is there for a nation which lives on potatoes?’ A Brief History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol. 53, Spring 2024. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  2. A History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. Chapter in A History of Statistics in Ireland, MacKenzie, G. (Editor), Springer Munich Germany (forthcoming, expected 2025). [pdf Chapter, pdf Bibliography]
  3. A Lesson from Ireland’s Depression. Annals of Actuarial Science, Vol 8, Part 1, (2014), 1-8. [pdf, or from publisher, pdf]
  4. Deficits and De-Risking in Defined Benefit Plans. Irish Pensions Magazine, Autumn 2011, 10-11. (with John Tuohy).
  5. One Nation in Old Age. Irish Pensions Magazine. Vol. 9, April 2009, 20-21. [pdf]
  6. State Must Take Over Pensions to Plug the €30bn Gap. Opinion piece in Irish Independent, 15 January 2009.
  7. Private Pension Promises are only as Secure as Junk Bonds. Opinion piece in Sunday Business Post, 14 December 2008.
  8. An Ideal Crisis.  Chapter in Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Implications, published in December 2008 jointly by Society of Actuaries (US), the Casualty Actuarial Society (US), and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, pp 62-65. [pdf]
  9. Individual Retirement Accounts are Less Efficient than State Pensions, Finance, Vol. 21, No. 7, 10, August 2007. [pdf]
  10. A Principled Approach to the National Pensions Debate. Irish Pensions Magazine. Vol. 2 Spring 2007, 12-15. [Cover Story, pdf] 
  11. Not Such a Great Controversy: Actuarial Science and Financial Economics. The Actuary (US), Dec 2006/Jan 2007, 16-23.  [Cover Story, pdf]
  12. Phelim Boyle. The Actuary (UK), September 2006, 27-28. [pdf]
  13. Bull and Bear or Simply All Bull? Risks and Rewards, 48, August 2006, 22-30. Society of Actuaries (US). [pdf]
  14. Factoring Human Nature into Pension Policy. Irish Pensions Magazine. January 2006, 20-21. [pdf]
  15. Global Science Divided by Local Professions. The Actuary (UK), November 2005, 28-29. [pdf]
  16. Pension Crisis: What Crisis? Opinion piece in Sunday Business Post (Ireland), 16th October 2005.
  17. Actuarial Researcher-Shane Whelan, Significance, Vol 2, Issue 3, 125-127 (September 2005). [pdf]
  18. RPI: A Really Profligate Index? Significance, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 66-68 (June 2005). [pdf]
  19. Econophysics: Making Money before Doomsday. Risks and Rewards, 46, Cover Story – 1, 4-6, February 2005, Society of Actuaries (US). [pdf]
  20. The Sky in Falling! The Actuary (UK), August 2004. [pdf]
  21. Actuaries’ Contributions to Financial Economics, The Actuary, December 2002. [pdf]
  22. Beating the Market. The Actuary (UK), Jan./Feb. 2002. [pdf]
  23. Academics and Fund Managers Bury the Hackett, The Actuary (UK), May 2001. [pdf]
  24. Irish Financial History – in Brief, The Actuary (UK), August 2000, 30-31.
  25. Actuary of the Millennium? The Actuary (UK), April 2000, 27. [pdf]
  26. Ireland’s First Actuaries. Newsletter of the Society of Ireland. [pdf]