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The Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group (ARG) was born over the weekend of 7-8 March 2020. The Friday Report has been one of the Group's key outputs throughout the pandemic. This blog looks at the themes that emerged in the Friday Report, ahead of the Friday Report editorial team's session at the IFoA Conference 2022.

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.

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”.

The IFoA's Policy and Public Affairs Assistant, Matthew Humphreys, breaks down the UK Government's legislative agenda following the Queen's Speech 2022.

In advance of the IFoA webinar, 'Finance in the Public Interest: A Just Transition – Why it matters and how investors can enable it?' Chair of the discussion panel, Sandy Trust (Chair of the IFoA Sustainability Board) expands on the need for global collaboration in order to achieve net-zero.

Six prominent members of the profession reflect on the value of regulation to the profession and their careers.

Rutendo Mupani is an actuarial student from Zimbabwe. She received funding support from the IFoA Foundation for her CS1 examination.

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?

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 ...

Emma Gilpin, Head of Regulatory Policy at the IFoA, outlines the value that regulation brings to the profession.

Jamie Funnell (of Pension Insurance Corporation), Chair of the CMI Annuities Committee, sets out the key findings of our analysis of the mortality experience of pension annuities in payment through 2020 and the first half of 2021.

Karl Oliver of the IFoA's Cyber Risk Working Party looks at how cyber insurance risk has focused on General Insurance and explores how and why it should be a focus for Life insurers too.