Member benefits

Qualifications that keep pace with business needs

• Gain a qualification that’s in demand from businesses, organisations, and governments worldwide: Associateship or Fellowship. Actuaries who gained their qualifications through the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) can also describe themselves as chartered.
• A growing range of post-qualification certificates, including Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) (50% IFoA member discount), Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary and Climate Risk and Sustainability Course.
• Educational resources, examination support, counselling, and Acted online forum to support your learning.

Regulation and professional integrity

• Practice in line with The Actuaries’ Code, our global ethical framework.
• Effective regulation and practice certification to ensure public trust and support.
• A proportionate and transparent system of peer discipline protects your professional reputation.
• IFoA Quality Assurance Standard recognises employer excellence.

Supporting your career

• IFoA mentoring programme
• An annual programme of fresh professional skills development to keep you at the cutting edge.
• Over 100 webinars and events every year, held in-person and online, from short technical sessional meetings to major multi-day global conferences.
• Lifelong learning resources on a range of emerging fields and topics.

A global professional community

• Networking events, webinars and a dedicated global membership support team
• Get The Actuary magazine and regular email newsletters
• Join any of our major practice areas and dozens of working parties

Research, knowledge and thought leadership

• Enjoy access to a range of high-quality, focused events, library, journals and publications.
• Contribute to and access original research from our working groups and research parties.
• Benefit from IFoA thought leadership with our 'Think' series and policy and public affairs responses and outputs.
• Access our knowledge hub with thousands of high-quality learning resources.

Volunteering opportunities

• Benefit from a host of unique volunteering opportunities, from showcasing the profession to the next generation as a Career Ambassador to supporting the education of other actuaries.
• Step forward to play an essential leadership role and help steer the profession into the future.

Advocating for the profession

• Our award-winning policy, public affairs and communication capacity ensures the voice of the profession is heard.
• Join a profession that supports the public interest by bringing the actuarial perspective to issues of global importance, from climate change to social care, and from pensions to AI.