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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.

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.

Joanne Meusz (Government Actuary’s Department), looks at the role that actuaries, working with others, can play in addressing some of the world’s biggest challenges.

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

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. 

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 presentation of the paper was followed by a very interesting discussion on dependencies with contributions from members of the audience. Two key themes emerged from the discussion: the tools ...

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 ...

Ahead of his IFoA Conference 2022 pleanry session, "Challenges ahead for pensions and the welfare state", Paul Johnson CBE, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, gives a brief ...

The next blog in the series of Good Actuarial Reports 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. 

In the 2nd blog on Actuarial Reports, we look at the four key elements of the planning process for any project, and how 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.

It is now a year since we had the excitement of the launch event for the Great Risk Transfer (GRT) recommendations report, so it’s a good time to look back at what we have achieved so far and the challenges ahead