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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
Private assets valuation
Leslie Uzan, Head of Private Equity and Debt at St James’s Place Wealth Management, discusses the recent paper published by the IFoA’s Private Assets Valuation Working Party.
From bias to black boxes: understanding and managing the risks of AI from an actuarial perspective
Valerie du Preez from Dupro Advisory Actuartech, and Richard Galbraith from Canada Life, preview their presentation to the IFoA Conference 2023
Actuaries are human too: managing behavioural risks in expert judgement
Zoe Burdo and Ed Harrison from LCP preview their forthcoming presentation at the IFoA Conference 2023
Five times faster: the invisible infrastructure of climate change
Matthew Levine, Policy Manager at the IFoA, reflects on the second webinar in the IFoA’s Presidential Speaker Series on alternative economic thinking
Why actuaries should take the IFoA climate risk course
Our Climate Risk and Sustainability course, open to all members, helps actuaries understand climate risks in the same way as other major risks. We asked recent graduates Sian, Samuel and Caryl to give us their verdict.
New Capital Consensus: the investment system and how actuaries impact it
A summary of part 3 of the IFoA’s Presidential Speaker Series on alternative economic thinking
Impacts of biodiversity loss part 1: economic impacts
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. This series of blogs, from the IFoA’s Biodiversity Working Group, explores how this could impact companies, countries, and economies.