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IFoA conferences

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”.

Covid-19
IFoA Event
IFoA conferences

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.

Mental health
Learning

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

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.

Regulation
IFoA

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.

Policy
Public Affairs

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.

Actuarial reports

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.

Actuarial reports

Good Actuarial Reports - Final top tips

In this latest blog, we provide an overview of our top tips when writing good actuarial reports.

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.

DEI

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.

Banking
Modelling
IFoA Event

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

Covid-19

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.

IFoA Event
IFoA conferences

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.

Pensions
Policy
IFoA conferences

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.

Actuarial reports

Good Actuarial Reports: Before writing

Good Actuarial Reports: Before writing

Climate Change
IFoA Event
Risk

Disaster risk finance

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” – Helen Keller

Actuarial reports

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.

DEI

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.

CMI
Mortality

Unusually high mortality in recent months

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has been publishing frequent updates on mortality in the general population during the pandemic. This blog focuses on mortality in the general population in the first three quarters of 2022.

CMI
Mortality
Annuities

CMI findings on equity release mortgage experience

Jamie Funnell (of Pension Insurance Corporation), Chair of the CMI Annuities Committee, sets out the key findings of its analysis of the mortality and long-term care experience of equity release mortgage holders.