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Not really trying: our surprisingly bad assessments of climate change risks
Simon Sharpe, Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, explains why targeted changes to ideas and institutions are needed to mitigate climate change
The state of global climate change: the IPPC Synthesis Report
Caroline Winchester, Policy Manager at the IFoA, discusses the findings in the latest IPCC Report
2021… what have we seen for pension annuitants?
Piero Cocevar, a member of the CMI Annuities Committee, reflects on the key findings from the Committee’s analysis of the mortality experience of pension annuities in payment in 2021.
Purpose and profit
Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, explains why purpose and profit don’t have to be mutually exclusive
Quarterly excess mortality continues to rise
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, reviews the CMI’s mortality analysis for the first quarter of 2023.
Sustainable Finance Community film club review
Many documentaries are now adopting a focus on climate change, as the impact on the natural world becomes clearer to see. How does the finance industry fit into all of this? The Sustainable Finance Community (SFC), an initiative from the IFoA’s Sustainability Board, examined this topic in our film club with the documentary 'Our Planet: Too Big To Fail' and decided to produce a blog around the ensuing discussion.
An introduction to alternative economic thinking
Matthew Levine, Policy Manager at the IFoA, reflects on the opening webinar of the IFoA’s ‘Alternative economic thinking’ presidential speaker series
Timothy Cheng – SFC ‘Talk Sustainability’ interview
Dhruv Gavde of the Sustainable Finance Community (SFC) interviewed Timothy Cheng, steering member of SOA Climate and Catastrophe Research Committee, to talk about his career and sustainability