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Biodiversity
Sustainability

Biodiversity Sessional: Planting the seeds

Nick Spencer, Chair of the IFoA Sustainability Board, provides insight to the latest sessional meeting on Biodiversity, and shares where you can find out more on this important topic.

Covid-19
Sustainability

Bringing Sustainability to the forefront of COVID-19 recovery

Sheel Shah and Madhuri Kumar discuss redefining goals so that recovery from the pandemic is sustainable, resilient and equitable, and one that doesn’t ignore the planetary boundaries between humanity and the environment.

Sustainability
Pensions

Impact Investing – Can We Make Returns and Reduce Inequality?

Rahul Kapur is a student member of the IFoA working for E&Y in Delhi, India. He believes that Impact Investing provides a win-win for investors and society and that it’s worth a closer look by the actuarial profession. In this article, the first of a 3-part series, Rahul introduces Impact Investing and explains how historical returns are higher than you might think.

Climate Change
Sustainability

COP26: Actual climate change success or a lot of hot air?

David Thomson, Head of Policy and Research at the IFoA, rounds up some of the key takeaways from the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference and what it might mean for the work of the IFoA and the actuarial profession.

Sustainability
Pensions

Impact Investing by Pension Funds – Towards a better future

Rahul Kapur is a student member of the IFoA working for E&Y in Delhi, India. He believes that Impact Investing provides a win-win for investors and society. In this article, the second of a 3-part series, Rahul sets out the rationale for impact investment for pension funds, gives real-life examples, and explains how pension funds can enter this space.

Careers
Sustainability

Where can sustainability take your career?

Jennifer Stott, Head of Finance at Lloyds Banking Group, and member of the IFoA Sustainability Board discusses her longstanding passion for sustainability and advice for integrating sustainability into your actuarial career.

Careers
Sustainability

The role that sustainability played in my career

Nick Spencer, a Sustainable Investment Advisor, Immediate Past Chair IFoA Sustainability Board and IFoA Council Member, talks about the role that sustainability has played in his career.

Climate Change
Sustainability

The Road to Glasgow

In the lead-up to COP26, IFoA President Louise Pryor is chairing IFoA’s thought leadership series on sustainability sponsored by Milliman and Star Actuarial Futures.

Climate Change
Sustainability

What is the goal as we build back better from the aftermath of COVID-19?

Josephine Robertson, MA FIA CERA MPH, with inputs from the workstream, discusses the importance of revisiting the definition of goals we strive to achieve while we rebuild our post-pandemic societies.

Climate Change
Sustainability

Problems with targeting GDP growth

James Fisher, with inputs from within the COVID-19 workstream, discusses the potential drawbacks of using economic growth as the primary lens through which government policy decisions are made.