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IFoA Foundation Q&A with Rutendo Mupani, Actuarial Student
Rutendo Mupani is an actuarial student from Zimbabwe. She received funding support from the IFoA Foundation for her CS1 examination.
Will you enter The Frank Redington Prizes?
With just a month to go until the competition closes, Immediate Past President Tan Suee Chieh blogs on the inspiration behind the Frank Redington Prizes and calls on the profession to step forward with innovative thinking.
The Great Risk Transfer – looking to the future
Imagine a world in which there was nothing to prompt the IFoA to initiate our ‘Great Risk Transfer’ campaign. This is not a Utopian John Lennon ‘Imagine’ – much more modest than that. But let’s dip a toe into this imaginary world (at an unknown date in the fairly near future) – what might it look like?
Proud of the Standard: what has IFoA regulation ever done for us?
Proud of the Standard: what has IFoA regulation ever done for us?
Pensions volunteering: join the Pensions Research Sub-committee
The chair of the IFoA’s Pensions Research Sub-committee Glyn Bradley talks about the committee’s work and how you can get involved.
The Great Risk Transfer – one year on
In a blog published in April we described the tremendous practical potential of some of the recommendations from our Great Risk Transfer (GRT) campaign, imagining a future financial landscape in which they had been implemented and were helping individuals to manage their risks in pensions and insurance.
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.