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Climate Change
Climate change disclosure

Climate reporting focus: TCFD

This is part 15 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 TCFD and a brief overview its wide-reaching recommendations.

Climate Change
Climate change disclosure

Climate reporting focus: Energy security and the impact on sustainable investments

This is the final part of a series of educational posts from the IFoA’s Climate Change Disclosures Working Party about climate reporting topics. Here we explore the impact that energy security considerations have had on the types of assets as green investments and the consequences this may have on reporting and progress towards net zero.

Life Insurance
Life Conference

Recovery and resolution plans: Life Conference 2023

A preview of the upcoming Life Conference 2023 session on meeting the new regulations for pension providers.

Life Insurance

Challenges in implementing an insurance-based solution for meeting cost of care in England

Adele Groyer of the IFoA’s Social Care Working Party gives an overview of the Association of British Insurers ‘Prepare for Care’ report against a background of continued uncertainty about what state support will be available in future.

CMI

Decoding post-pandemic mortality: a first look at 2022 data

Piero Cocevar (of Phoenix Group), member of the CMI Annuities Committee, reflects on the key findings of its analysis of the mortality experience of pension annuities in payment by month to end of 2022.

Life Insurance
Annuities
Life Conference

UK bulk annuity market: bigger, stronger, faster, harder

Over the past decade, the bulk purchase annuity (BPA) market has become almost unrecognisable, with its size, sophistication, and efficiency all evolving significantly. Here Suanne Chong and Andrew Kenyon of NatWest Markets preview their session at Life Conference 2023.

Public Affairs
Policy

IFoA success at party conference season 2023

Our Policy and Public Affairs Team reports back from the 2023 party conferences, an opportunity to bring the actuarial profession ‘to life’ to political stakeholders.

Policy
AI
Machine Learning

AI week and the AI Safety Summit: what actuaries need to know

Last week hearts and minds across Westminster turned to the rapidly rising technology of ‘frontier’ AI, in what political commentators referred to as ‘AI week’

Pensions

Considerations for actuaries when advising on commutation rates

Jon Forsyth of LCP outlines a new paper on commutation rates and explores what it’s like being a member of an IFoA working party

Public Affairs
Policy

For the actuarial eye: Autumn Statement 2023

Our Policy and Public Affairs Team explores the contents of the Autumn Statement 2023 most relevant to the work of actuaries