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UN SDGs and AI: South Africa
This is part three of a series of blogs by the IFoA Data Science, Sustainability and Climate Change Working Party that discusses progress updates on UN SDGs and AI use. This blog focuses on South Africa.
Why you should consider standing in the IFoA Council elections 2025: Matthew Ford’s story
Matthew Ford was elected to IFoA Council in 2024. Matthew has been a life actuary for around 30 years, working in several life companies and consultancies. He is currently a Principal at Milliman and based in London. Here he shares his thoughts on standing for Council and his experience as an IFoA Council member.
Why you should consider standing in the IFoA Council elections 2025: Riekie Gordon’s story
Riekie Gordon was elected on to IFoA Council in 2024. Riekie began her actuarial career working in Defined Contributions pensions in Namibia and is currently a Senior Actuary in General Insurance pricing at AXA Luxembourg. Here, she shares her experience of becoming a Council member for the first time.
Roundtable: infrastructure investment and public private partnerships
This roundtable discussion brought together senior individuals with extensive experience of infrastructure projects involving both the public and private sectors. They included Treasury officials, investors from pension funds and insurance firms, project managers, consultants, and the chair and members of the IFoA Infrastructure Working Party (IWP). This note summarises the discussion and ends with some agreed recommendations for government. The roundtable was held at Staple Inn Hall, London, on 30 April 2025.
Signal or noise – making sense of mortality post COVID-19 in the CMI annuitant dataset to 2023
Chipo Scolley (of Legal & General), member of the CMI Annuities Committee, reflects on the key findings of their analysis of the mortality experience of pension annuities in payment in 2023.
Authors of our own (climate) scenarios
This blog describes the discussion from an interactive session exploring climate scenarios for insurers. It outlines some lessons this exercise might have for life insurers when developing climate scenarios as part of their risk management processes.
A new chapter for the Formulae and Tables book
Actuaries Sally Calder and Colin Thores share their thoughts on the new edition of the Formulae and Tables book.
From pub chat to highly commended: the journey behind a Brian Hey-recognised paper
This blog reflects on the journey behind one of the two papers highly commended for the 2024 Brian Hey Prize. Co-author Cian Creedon shares how the idea was sparked, the collaborative effort that brought it to life, and how support from the IFoA helped turn research into recognition. A motivating read for anyone thinking of submitting in 2025.
Contents insurance and the Great Risk Transfer: practical solutions for vulnerable groups
A workshop between the IFoA and Fair4All Finance has produced concrete recommendations for improving insurance access among vulnerable populations. These include plans for a pilot minimum value contents insurance product.
How are green bonds helping China’s efforts to achieve net zero?
This is part of a series of blogs about net zero investment in different regions of the world outside of UK and EU. We explore how different countries are approaching the net zero transition and the investment markets that exist to support this. Here, Randall Ramsahai focuses on China.