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Supporting actuaries with climate related analysis
As part of the Life Climate working party, the insurance risk sub-group is looking at how to support actuaries with climate-related analysis in the context of insurance liabilities, and the impact on non-economic factors.
Covid-19 and the impact on UK Income Protection business
Duncan Heald (of Scor) and Landi du Toit (of PartnerRe), members of the CMI Income Protection Committee, summarise the results of a Covid-19 survey they recently conducted.
Biodiversity Sessional: Planting the seeds
Nick Spencer, Chair of the IFoA Sustainability Board, provides insight to the latest sessional meeting on Biodiversity, and shares where you can find out more on this important topic.
Pageantry-lite. Policy-lite.
The IFoA's Head of Public Affairs, Henry Thompson, breaks down the UK Government's legislative agenda following the Queen's Speech 2021.
Data Science Certificate case studies: Min Liang
Min Liang is a Senior Risk Manager at Aviva Singlife in Singapore where he leads the Group Enterprise Risk Function. He explains how he will be taking the techniques he learnt on the Certificate in Data Science course back to his workplace.
Careers insight: Q&A with Jason Allan, Business Development Director, Allianz
What does a Business Development actuary do?
Bringing Sustainability to the forefront of COVID-19 recovery
Sheel Shah and Madhuri Kumar discuss redefining goals so that recovery from the pandemic is sustainable, resilient and equitable, and one that doesn’t ignore the planetary boundaries between humanity and the environment.
Actuarial careers insight: What does a Portfolio Manager do?
Actuarial careers insight Portfolio Manager
Impact Investing – Can We Make Returns and Reduce Inequality?
Rahul Kapur is a student member of the IFoA working for E&Y in Delhi, India. He believes that Impact Investing provides a win-win for investors and society and that it’s worth a closer look by the actuarial profession. In this article, the first of a 3-part series, Rahul introduces Impact Investing and explains how historical returns are higher than you might think.
IFoA’s All-Member Survey 2021
The IFoA’s all-member survey. IFoA President, Dr Louise Pryor, blogs on the importance of listening to the member feedback obtained through this triennial survey.
Sustainability Book Club – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
About the book
The Ministry for the Future is a well-balanced mixture of science/climate fiction and real-life climate change issues. The book takes the reader into a fictional near-future which consists of existing real-world technologies, economics, and societies, where the actions and inactions of the characters decide their fates. The book is packed with fresh ideas and perspectives on sustainability, as well as solutions to combat the climate crisis such as geoengineering and the ‘carbon coin’.
Five takeaways from COP26 Finance Day
It is not by chance that the first of the COP26 themed days was Finance Day. Central to the perceived success of the UN Climate Change conference was reaching the Paris Agreement target of US$100 billion per year of funding to developing nations to address climate change. But more than that, the UK Presidency declared that to reach our climate goals, “every company, every financial firm, every bank, insurer and investor will need to change.” This will require both public finance for the development of infrastructure and private finance to fund technology and innovation, and to help turn the “billions of public money into trillions of total climate investment”.
IFoA Policy Manager Caroline Winchester was at Finance Day on Wednesday 3 November and here are her five takeaways:
Pension scheme mortality during the pandemic
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) Self-administered Pension Schemes (SAPS) Committee has published its latest annual analysis of the mortality experience of pension scheme members. This covers the period 2013-2020, so is the first to include experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COP26: Actual climate change success or a lot of hot air?
David Thomson, Head of Policy and Research at the IFoA, rounds up some of the key takeaways from the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference and what it might mean for the work of the IFoA and the actuarial profession.
How will rise in ransomware threat impact cyber insurance?
How will rise in ransomware threat impact cyber insurance?
Recommended Papers: Embedding Climate Change risks into Life Insurer Risk Frameworks
The Risk Management workstream of the IFOA’s Life Board Climate Risk Working Party is tasked with looking to support life insurers with embedding climate change risks into their risk frameworks. As this is a very broad topic, the scope was limited to key pillars of the risk management framework, such as risk governance, risk appetite and stress and scenario testing. The finer details of modelling the impact of climate change risks on assets and/or liabilities are covered by other workstreams of this working party.
Recognising extraordinary colleagues – a call for nominations
IFoA President, Dr Louise Pryor, calls on members to help the IFoA to recognise those who have influenced and championed the actuarial world during an unexpected period of history.
Mental health: disrupting the vicious circle
Compared with other features of insurance underwriting, mental health is inadequately understood. It is a multifaceted and emotive topic that will require the combination of understanding, experience, and open collaboration to help millions of people. In this blog, Jon Loach sheds a little light on the work of the IFoA’s Mental Health Working Party.