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Mental Health and Life Insurance: Data and Modelling
Lisa Balboa, Maryse Nashime and Joe Wilson discuss their upcoming talk at The IFoA Conference on 22 June on “Mental Health and Life Insurance: Data and Modelling”.
Thank Goodness it's not a Friday
The Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group (ARG) was born over the weekend of 7-8 March 2020. As the Lombardy region in Italy was being shut down, our group of concerned actuaries, epidemiologists and public health experts came together with the support and encouragement of the then President-elect, Tan Suee Chieh.
IFoA's Mental Health Working Party – bringing our work into the actuarial syllabus
Dave Matthews, Head of PRT Quote Production, Legal & General, discusses the IFoA’s Mental Health Working Party’s work on the changes to the actuarial syllabus and recaps the week of mental health podcasts from February.
Actuarial Reports: Specification and Planning
Simplify the problem
Actuarial papers can have many different tasks and a range of stakeholders. Before you wade into the report and try your best to keep everyone happy all the time, it can be helpful to step back and try to articulate why and how your report is complicated.
Proud of the Standard: transforming regulation
For over 150 years, the IFoA has set professional standards for the actuarial profession. During the last three years, we have worked with members to redesign our processes to ensure that they are proportionate, constructive, and provide the best value for the actuarial profession in the 21st century.
The Queen’s Speech 2022 – What’s In and What’s Out?
The IFoA's Policy and Public Affairs Assistant, Matthew Humphreys, breaks down the UK Government's legislative agenda following the Queen's Speech 2022.
Good Actuarial Reports: During work
This section sets out what can be done while undertaking the analysis to ensure that your user needs will be met and can be communicated appropriately in your report.
Good Actuarial Reports - Final top tips
In this latest blog, we provide an overview of our top tips when writing good actuarial reports.
Good Actuarial Reports: Pre-work
There are four key elements to the planning process for any project, and writing a good report should be viewed as the communication of the project undertaken (covering the assumptions made, the methodology used and the results obtained) not as an extra work-stream of the project.
Pride 2022: Together we can effect change
Through our DEI strategy we want to 'champion and embody the benefits of a globally diverse and inclusive profession'.
On international pride day our members, volunteers, employers and IFoA staff come together to discuss how we are driving forward change, supporting LGBTQ+ employees and members and helping to create inclusive spaces.
Dependencies and diversification - a follow up to the IFoA sessional meeting in March
Dependencies and diversification - a follow up to the IFoA sessional meeting in March | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
What’s COVID-19 done to term assurance experience?
The CMI Assurances Committee reports regularly on the claims experience of policyholders with term assurances issued by UK life insurers. Our most recent analysis, released in Working Paper 162, considers the experience in 2020 and the initial impact of COVID-19.
Reflections on a game-changing conference
Following the inaugural IFoA Conference on 22-22 June, IFoA CEO Stephen Mann reflects on the successes and learnings from our first fully hybrid, cross-practice event.
Stability and Stasis - Pensions Policy 17 Years Since The Pensions Commission
Ahead of his IFoA Conference 2022 plenary session, "Challenges ahead for pensions and the welfare state", Paul Johnson CBE, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, gives a brief overview of how far pension reform has come since the Pension Commission of the mid-2000s.
Good Actuarial Reports: During writing
With sufficient planning and preparation, the writing process should now flow relatively easily. At this stage, less is generally more - except when it comes to emphasis, stories and visual depiction.
Black History Month – the achievements of inspiring black mathematicians
As Black History Month 2022 draws to a close, IFoA member, Nyasha Chiwereza reflects on the achievements of inspiring black mathematicians.