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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.

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) Mortality Projections Committee (MPC) published annual updates to the CMI Mortality Projection Model. This blog summarises the latest version, CMI_2021. There is more detail in ...

In his latest blog, Paul Walsh discusses future global risks, in particular around the impact of climate change, that we, as actuaries, should be thinking about, preparing for, and mitigating as far as possible, right now.

‘Less is more: How degrowth will save the world’ is a book by Jason Hickel: an economic anthropologist, Fullbright Scholar, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

As the IFoA launches its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy, IFoA Council Member Nick Spencer discusses why the IFoA needs one.

IFoA Council member Nick Spencer gave evidence yesterday on behalf of the IFoA today to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee on their inquiry into how to align the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. The committee considered alternatives to GDP, looking at how including natural and social capital might impact government, private firms, and financial institutions.

Zoe Burdo FIA of the IFoA's Diversity Action Group looks at how we can all as individuals tackle bias

IFoA Diversity Action Group member Rajinder Poonian discusses how to take diversity, equity and inclusion from words and strategies into real action and change.

Fyona Murphy of the IFoA Mental Health Working Party looks back over the Mental Health in Life Insurance week produced with the Practical Protection Podcast, in association with Cover magazine

Disability Insurance and Workplace Wellbeing Consultant Monica Garcia gives an overiew of the relationship between mental health conditions and Disability Insurance.

Vanessa Sallows, Claims & Governance Director at Legal & General Group Protection, talks about mental health touchpoints during the claims journey and the early intervention opportunity for individual income protection.

Fraser Ballantine, Underwriting Quality & Risk Manager at Zurich and member of the IFOA Mental Health Working Party, talks about the considerations and developments in underwriting mental health conditions.