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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.
More investment in UK infrastructure: are pooled funds the answer?
Chris Lewin of the IFoA’s Infrastructure Working Party explores the UK government’s options for getting more investment into UK infrastructure
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.
FCA’s protection market study: market overview
Yavi Ganeshamohan, Adam Hughes, and Joshua Lea of the IFoA’s Consumer Duty Working Party provide insights into the FCA’s protection market study, highlighting key dynamics shaping the retail protection landscape.
Private credit: First Brands case study
This blog is the first in a series by the IFoA Private Credit Working Party. We begin with a case study that allows an examination of the credit risk, structural complexity, and regulatory considerations through the lens of the bankruptcy of First Brands, a privately owned American auto parts manufacturer, in September 2025.
Five takeaways from COP26 Finance Day
It is not by chance that the first of the COP26 themed days was Finance Day. Central to the perceived success of the UN Climate Change conference was reaching the Paris Agreement target of US$100 billion per year of funding to developing nations to address climate change. But more than that, the UK Presidency declared that to reach our climate goals, “every company, every financial firm, every bank, insurer and investor will need to change.” This will require both public finance for the development of infrastructure and private finance to fund technology and innovation, and to help turn the “billions of public money into trillions of total climate investment”.
IFoA Policy Manager Caroline Winchester was at Finance Day on Wednesday 3 November and here are her five takeaways:
Actuaries need economic realism
Following the April webinar ‘Why actuaries need a new economics’, speakers Professor Steve Keen and William Hynes offered some reflections.
Managing infrastructure resilience
Here Chris Lewin of the IFoA’s Infrastructure Working Party aims to stimulate strategic thinking about resilience by those who plan infrastructure and those who run it once in operation.
Meeting global net zero: how equipped is the USA’s investment market?
This is part of a series of blogs exploring the investment markets in some of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries outside the UK and EU. We delve into how these investment markets are supporting the net zero transition. Here, Randall Ramsahai and Saskia Praill tackle the USA.
India: the road to net zero by 2070
This is part of a series of blogs exploring the investment markets in some of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries outside the UK and EU. We delve into how these investment markets are supporting the net zero transition. Here, Neha Agarwala examines India’s progress.