Dr Dawkins Brown

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IAS 19: The Employee Benefit Liability Hidden Behind Payroll

August 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF Most employers know what their workforce costs them this year, because it moves through payroll. Far fewer know what their workforce promises are worth, because those promises mature over decades and only a portion of them is ever measured. This article works through one employer: 480 staff, 95 retirees on a medical plan,...

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Is Your Pension Plan Sustainable? Why the Funding Ratio Is Not Enough

August 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF Most trustee and board discussion of a pension plan begins and ends with the funding ratio. It is the wrong number to end on — not because it is inaccurate, but because it describes one day and says nothing about whether the plan recovers from it. Three questions matter more. How mature...

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The actuarial case for caribbean climate resilience

July 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF Caribbean organisations cannot influence how often hurricanes form or how intense they become. That is the part of climate risk most discussion concentrates on, and it is the only part that is not a management decision. What is decided — deliberately or by default — is what the organisation owns and where,...

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Quantifying the risks hidden in strategic plans

July 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF A strategic plan is a set of assumptions with a financial statement attached. The assumptions are usually reasonable. The problem is that they are recorded as inputs rather than as uncertainties, and once a number enters the model nobody revisits who chose it or what it would take to be wrong. This article...

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Actuarial science beyond insurance and pensions

July 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN BRIEF Actuarial technique is not a service for insurers. It is a method for putting a number on uncertainty — and most organisations are already carrying uncertainty they have priced by assumption rather than by measurement. Three worked cases follow: an extended warranty, a receivables book and an inventory decision. None involves an...

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Why Actuarial Insight Belongs in Every Caribbean Risk Strategy

July 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Turning uncertainty into measurable, manageable and strategically useful information What the 2025 Season Showed About Measuring Risk When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica in late October 2025, the Government received a payout of US$70.8 million from the regional parametric facility — the largest single payout in that facility’s history — followed by a further US$21.1 million...

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Who Tests the SOC? Independent Assurance in the Age of the Security Operations Centre

July 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Something genuinely encouraging is happening in Caribbean cybersecurity: the region is building watchtowers. Security operations centres are opening, managed detection services are multiplying, telecom providers and security groups are investing in around-the-clock monitoring, and governments are applauding — rightly, because the capability gap these investments address is real. This series argued in...

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The First Ninety Days: From Cybersecurity Assumptions to Cyber Assurance — The Complete Roadmap

July 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Eleven articles ago, this series opened with a claim that has since been argued from every angle: cybersecurity is no longer an IT issue — it is an enterprise risk owned in the boardroom, and the difference between believing your controls work and proving they do is the difference on which organisations now...

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From Annual Snapshot to Standing Confidence: Continuous Cyber Assurance for Caribbean Organisations

July 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary An annual cyber assessment is a photograph of a moving object. It is taken with care, framed well, and true at the shutter’s click — and the object keeps moving the moment the photographer leaves. Systems change weekly; vendors change quietly; threats change daily; people join, move and leave every month. Every discipline...

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The Report Is Not the Finish Line: Turning Cyber Findings into Verified Closure

July 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Across nine articles, this series has argued for independent evidence: assessments that examine, tests that prove, boards that verify. This tenth article confronts the uncomfortable place where most of that good work goes to die — the findings tracker. Every organisation that has ever commissioned an assessment owns one: a spreadsheet or register...

IAS 19: The Employee Benefit Liability Hidden Behind Payroll

Quantifying the risks hidden in strategic plans

Actuarial science beyond insurance and pensions

Why Actuarial Insight Belongs in Every Caribbean Risk Strategy

Who Tests the SOC? Independent Assurance in the Age of the Security Operations Centre

The First Ninety Days: From Cybersecurity Assumptions to Cyber Assurance — The Complete Roadmap

From Annual Snapshot to Standing Confidence: Continuous Cyber Assurance for Caribbean Organisations

The Report Is Not the Finish Line: Turning Cyber Findings into Verified Closure

August 10, 2026CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

August 10, 2026GOVERNANCE :The Board That Meets Once a Year Is Not a Board

August 9, 2026DEPENDENCE: Key-Person Risk Is a Valuation Discount, Not a Compliment

August 9, 2026VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 6, 2026One Page, Every Quarter

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