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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

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.

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.