{"id":94,"date":"2017-02-13T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/?p=94"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:00:44","slug":"canada-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/2017\/02\/13\/canada-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">On Wednesday, 8 February, we took a journey through Masimba&#8217;s life as an actuary.<\/p>\n<p>Masimba graduated from the University of Kent a whole thirteen years ago! He followed the &#8220;conventional&#8221; route (if there is such a thing) and went straight into the industry. From starting out as a Junior Actuarial Analyst at Xafinity in 2004, to working (and studying)\u00a0his way up the ranks to Head of Capital and Stress Scenario Testing at Canada Life now, he told his professional tale, giving us\u00a0valuable advice as he did so.<\/p>\n<p>For all those who were unable to attend, we have not forsaken you.\u00a0Follow the link for a recording of the\u00a0presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.kent.ac.uk\/2016\/course\/view.php?id=2856\">https:\/\/moodle.kent.ac.uk\/2016\/course\/view.php?id=2856<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GOLDEN WORD: <\/strong>Get through the door and once you&#8217;re there, they&#8217;ll come looking for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 8 February, we took a journey through Masimba&#8217;s life as an actuary. Masimba graduated from the University of Kent a whole thirteen years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/2017\/02\/13\/canada-life\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227893],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}