Blog

The Sustainability Finance Community (SFC) Book Club was launched in December 2020 to provide an inclusive environment for members to discuss sustainability themed books. Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth was the choice for the inaugural meeting.

Tan Suee Chieh, President of the IFoA, discusses a new approach to thought leadership, and a talks about his new presidential speaker series.

Matthew Edwards, Stuart McDonald and Nicola Oliver of the COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group look back over their 100 bulletins and how actuaries have come together to help tackle the pandemic.

John Taylor, Immediate Past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries reviews The Great Risk Transfer ahead of the launch of the campaign's recommendations.

Asif John, Chairman of the IFoA’s Data Science Working Party, looks at what data scientists and actuaries stand to gain from a closer relationship.

In this article, Keziah Baskerville-Muscutt interviews Louise Pryor, who is a sustainability actuary and President-elect of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). Keziah asks Louise about her work, her views of the actuarial profession and how it links to sustainability, and her advice for aspiring members.

In light of the pandemic, the IFOA Covid-19 Action Taskforce (ICAT) Social Security Group has been re-examining retirement ages. In particular, whether earlier access to state pension benefits should now be considered despite this being in the opposite direction of travel from government policy in most western economies.

In this blog Stephen Moncrief, of the IFoA’s COVID-19 Action Taskforce (ICAT) Social Security Group, takes a look at where UBI schemes have not been implemented but where there has been considerable interest.

Rahul Kapur is a student member of the IFoA working for E&Y in Delhi, India. He believes that Impact Investing provides a win-win for investors and society and that it’s worth a closer look by the actuarial profession. In this article, the first of a 3-part series, Rahul introduces Impact Investing and explains how historical returns are higher than you might think.

IFoA’s COVID-19 Action Taskforce (ICAT) Financial Reporting Group (FRG) with input from within the COVID-19 workstream, provides initial observations considering the topic of Covid-19 reporting implications for actuaries working on insurance companies/pension plans.

Alan Marshall, Review Actuary in the IFoA Actuarial Review Team, talks about the success of the first Thematic Review Report and looks ahead to the next reviews being planned.

Josephine Robertson, MA FIA CERA MPH, with inputs from the workstream, discusses the importance of revisiting the definition of goals we strive to achieve while we rebuild our post-pandemic societies.