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Climate Change
Sustainability

The power of purposeful business

A summary of part 4 of the IFoA’s Presidential Speaker Series on alternative economic thinking

Mortality

Will we die, survive or thrive next time?

A look at pandemics and longevity by David Sinclair, Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre UK.

Climate Change
Sustainability
Biodiversity

Biodiversity and nature related risks for actuaries: an introduction

Today the IFoA publishes its new report for actuaries on nature related risks. Here the report’s author Lucy Saye explores why the finance sector needs to address biodiversity loss and the central role that actuaries can play.

CMI

Comparison of UK and US mortality projection models

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) Mortality Projections Committee (MPC) worked on a joint project with the Society of Actuaries (SoA) to fit the UK and US mortality projection models to each other’s data. This blog provides and overview of the results published in CMI Working Paper 166.

CMI
Covid-19
Mortality

Monthly term assurance claims during COVID-19 pandemic

Chris Reynolds, Chair of the CMI Assurances Committee, discusses results of analysis of term assurance claims by month, published in Working Paper 176. The work builds on previous analysis of experience by month in 2019 and 2020, by adding new 2021 data.

DEI
IFoA conferences

Inclusivity in the insurance industry: right to be forgotten and beyond

Gillian O'Keeffe and David Waters of Pacific Life Re preview their IFoA Conference 2023 presentation on inclusivity in the insurance industry.

CMI

CMI_2022 shows half-year drop in cohort life expectancy

Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, summarises the latest update to the CMI Mortality Projections Model

IFoA Foundation

Mahidhara Davangere South Asia Scholars 2023 announced

The second cohort of Mahidhara Davangere South Asia Scholarships have been awarded to 15 scholars from IFoA partner universities in South Asia to support their journey to IFoA qualification.

IFoA Event
Sustainability

IFoA Asia Conference 2023: making actuarial sense of a sustainable future

Wan Saiful, CEO at Prudential BSN Takaful Berhad and chair of the IFoA Asia Conference 2023 organising committee, previews the event that takes an Asian view of the global challenges before actuaries

Climate Change
Sustainability
Biodiversity

The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios

Warning – the Earth’s climate may be more sensitive than we thought, meaning we are underestimating the risks from climate change – reinforcing the need to race to zero.