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IFoA
Regulation

Use your vote to protect the trust in our profession

Ian Farr JP FFA, Chair of the Disciplinary Scheme Review Working Party, explains the proposed changes and why it is so important for members to vote.

Chartered Actuary
CACT

Why I’ll be voting ‘Yes’ to Chartered Actuary

Why I’ll be voting ‘Yes’ to Chartered Actuary

Risk
Life Insurance
IFoA Event

Stress event management and Rubik’s Cubes

In this blog, David Chen, a member of the Stress Resilience Working Party, provides insight into some of the observations from the recent market stress event, which were presented at the Life Conference 2022.

DEI

Black actuaries: let’s get visible

For Black History Month 2022, the Chair of our Diversity Action Group Chika Aghadiuno reflects on the need for supportive networks and role models. She also introduces the UK Black Actuaries Network, which she co-founded.

Policy
Public Affairs

The IFoA tackles the big issues at party conferences

Our public affairs team was in full swing at the 2022 party conferences, first in Liverpool for Labour, then in Birmingham for the Conservatives. At both, they were proud to host fringe events that gave focus to some of the most pressing issues of our time. Here the team reports back, offering some insight into the rich panel discussions.

Covid-19

How have annuitants fared in the pandemic?

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.

General Insurance
Risk

Are the GI Actuaries hogging Cyber Insurance Risk?

Cyber research by the working party has to date focussed on General Insurance risks where firms have been increasingly writing cyber insurance policies. The Working Party are now looking to begin a new workstream, exploring how potential Cyber scenarios may impact a Life insurer, where historical loss event data will not be available for some of the more extreme scenarios.

CMI
Covid-19
Mortality

CMI_2021 shows modest fall in life expectancy

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 the CMI_2021 FAQs (open access) and Working Paper 160 (restricted to CMI Subscribers).

Climate Change
Climate change disclosure

Climate reporting focus: CDP

This is part 14 of a series of educational posts from the IFoA’s Climate Change Disclosures Working Party about climate reporting topics. Here we give an introduction to CDP and a brief overview of its submission process and outcomes.

Climate Change
Climate change disclosure

Climate reporting focus: Japan

This is part 13 of a series of educational posts from the IFoA’s Climate Change Disclosures Working Party about climate reporting topics. Here we focus on Japan: current practices and a brief overview of things to come.