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Pension scheme mortality: an update on the pandemic, and an analysis by sector
Matt Fletcher, Chair of the CMI SAPS Committees, summarises key points from the CMI’s latest annual analysis of the mortality experience of members of UK defined benefit pension schemes.
Have your say: incorporating DEI values into the Actuaries’ Code
Edwin Sheaf, member of the IFoA Regulatory Board, encourages members to have their say in our consultation on incorporating DEI values into the Actuaries’ Code.
Measures of excess deaths
Darryl Brundle, Head of Longevity at Legal & General and a member of the CMI Executive Committee, gives an overview of the different methodologies used to calculate excess deaths.
Taking an evidence-based approach to CDC pensions
Professor Catherine Donnelly is leading research into pensions products that are based on collective risk-sharing. Here she explores some of the themes emerging from the research.
The future of health: will the government deliver on its healthy ageing targets, or will we see deepening inequalities?
This blog follows the Institute and Faculty of Actuary’s ‘Future of health session’ at last year’s ILC’s Future of Ageing Conference – speakers included Stuart McDonald, Head of Longevity and Demographic Insights, Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP); George MacGinnis, Healthy Ageing Challenge Director, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); Nicola Oliver, Medical Intelligence; and Professor Les Mayhew, Head of Global Research, ILC, and Professor of Statistics at Bayes Business School.
Actuaries, foxes and economic pluralism
In the run up to our webinar on 27 March, Nick Foster considers whether a broader approach to economic thinking, beyond the prevailing orthodoxies, needs to be part of the actuarial toolkit
From stability to growth? Spring Budget key takeaways for actuaries
Charlie Wynne on our Policy and Public Affairs Team explores key takeaways for actuaries from the UK’s 2023 Spring Budget
The emerging impact of pension freedoms in individual annuities
In this blog, Jamie Funnell, chair of the CMI Annuities Committee, considers the effect of pension freedoms on annuities
Comparison of UK and US mortality projection models
In this blog, Cobus Daneel discusses a CMI project that investigated the benefits and downsides of adopting different approaches to modelling mortality projections.
Not really trying: our surprisingly bad assessments of climate change risks
Simon Sharpe, Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, explains why targeted changes to ideas and institutions are needed to mitigate climate change
The state of global climate change: the IPPC Synthesis Report
Caroline Winchester, Policy Manager at the IFoA, discusses the findings in the latest IPCC Report
2021… what have we seen for pension annuitants?
Piero Cocevar, a member of the CMI Annuities Committee, reflects on the key findings from the Committee’s analysis of the mortality experience of pension annuities in payment in 2021.
Purpose and profit
Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, explains why purpose and profit don’t have to be mutually exclusive
Quarterly excess mortality continues to rise
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, reviews the CMI’s mortality analysis for the first quarter of 2023.
Sustainable Finance Community film club review
Many documentaries are now adopting a focus on climate change, as the impact on the natural world becomes clearer to see. How does the finance industry fit into all of this? The Sustainable Finance Community (SFC), an initiative from the IFoA’s Sustainability Board, examined this topic in our film club with the documentary 'Our Planet: Too Big To Fail' and decided to produce a blog around the ensuing discussion.
An introduction to alternative economic thinking
Matthew Levine, Policy Manager at the IFoA, reflects on the opening webinar of the IFoA’s ‘Alternative economic thinking’ presidential speaker series
Timothy Cheng – SFC ‘Talk Sustainability’ interview
Dhruv Gavde of the Sustainable Finance Community (SFC) interviewed Timothy Cheng, steering member of SOA Climate and Catastrophe Research Committee, to talk about his career and sustainability
Road to net zero: why non-financial capital is important
Why solving modern slavery and biodiversity loss is just as important as reducing emissions on the path to net zero