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Climate Change

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

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

CMI
Mortality

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.

Sustainability

Purpose and profit

Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, explains why purpose and profit don’t have to be mutually exclusive

CMI

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.

Sustainability
Climate Change

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.

Sustainability

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

Sustainability

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

Sustainability
Climate Change
Biodiversity

Road to net zero: why non-financial capital is important

Why solving modern slavery and biodiversity loss is just as important as reducing emissions on the path to net zero

Finance

Private assets valuation

Leslie Uzan, Head of Private Equity and Debt at St James’s Place Wealth Management, discusses the recent paper published by the IFoA’s Private Assets Valuation Working Party.