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The Actuary magazine

  • The Actuary magazine The magazine of the actuarial profession, published by the Staple Inn Actuarial Society

Actuarial professional bodies and societies

Related professional bodies and societies

Education


Journals and publications

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  • Publishers:
    • LLP Ltd
      Lloyd's of London Press - includes catalogue of publications and searchable database of conferences, exhibitions and training courses
    • Risk Publications
      Aims to provide accurate analysis and technical commentary on the latest developments in finance and financial technology in a digestible, unbiased format
    • Swiss Re
      Includes a wide range of insurance publications for downloading
    • Witherby & Co
      Insurance and shipping publisher

Bulletin boards and newsgroups

Glossaries and Dictionaries

 

Portals and resource lists

  • Actuaries on the Web (alphabetical)
    A list of actuaries world-wide who have their own home page
  • Balducci's actuarial, risk and insurance links
    A very comprehensive list from the University of Calgary
  • British Library Direct
    Search database of 9 million articles. The Profession's libraries can obtain copies for members
  • CII Library Online
    Technical and market information on insurance, risk and related financial services and an international gateway to other published material on these subjects. Includes technical fact files, a digital journal archive, a library of scanned papers, a global Web directory, an online bookshop and other document delivery services.
  • City Handbook
    Information about over 150 organisations relevant to the UK's role as a financial centre
  • Compliance Online
    Links to financial services compliance-related sites and daily news on compliance issues
  • www.directoryinsurance.com
    Directory of insurance companies on the web
  • about.com Business insurance
    A portal with a strong US bias
  • International actuarial links
    A wide-ranging page of links to resources for actuaries maintained by Pr Dr Henk Wolthuis, Institute for Actuarial Science, University of Amsterdam
  • PPPBulletin
    A portal for news, research, tender information and market analysis relating to the private finance initiative and public private partnership projects in the UK and beyond
  • Social Science Research Network
    Over 98, 000 research papers, many can be downloaded free of charge
  • Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community
    Invaluable for locating journals and finding out about journals in a specific subject area.
  • Virtual Finance Library
    Maintained by the Ohio State University

Search engines and directories

  • British Library Online Catalogue
    Search the 8.5 million books and other material in the British Library's catalogues
  • Carol
    A free corporate online service offering one point access to worldwide company annual reports and a range of other investor information
  • Copac library catalogue
    Search the merged online catalogues of the major university and national libraries in the UK and Ireland 
  • Find
    Gateway to over 6,000 UK financial websites
  • IAA Virtual Actuarial Library
  • yell.com
    Yellow pages on the Internet. A useful search engine for UK-based information. In particular, the A-Z listing of UK company websites is often the most direct route to corporate information

Insurance news

  • Insurance window
    Daily updated industry news, articles, jobs and other industry information

Accountancy

Banking

  • The Bank of England
    The central bank of the United Kingdom
  • British Bankers Association
    A not-for-profit organisation, representing the banking industry in the UK. Funded by subscriptions from member banks and associate members from 60 different countries. Site includes information for consumers, businesses and the media
  • Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
    An educational body which offers a wide range of widely-recognised qualifications
  • ifs School of Finance
    The ifs School of Finance develops and delivers a range of qualifications. The site includes information on qualifications, seminars, training events, conferences and lectures, on-line library catalogue and links to other financial services sites


Finance and investment

General insurance and risk management

Law

  • Casetrack database
    Updated daily. Provides full-text judgments. Searchable by case name, date, subject, judge or name of legal representative
  • UK statute law database
    Official revised edition of the primary legislation of the UK
  • Index to Pensions Law Reports Series
    An authoritative source of court decisions on pensions issues. Each report sets out the full text of a legal decision, accompanied by a summary of the facts and a concise comment assessing the significance of each case
  • The Law Society
    The professional body for solicitors in England and Wales
  • The Law Society Gazette
    The official magazine of the Law Society
  • Merrill Legal Solutions
    Clients have access to a wealth of resources, expertise and experience. From pan-global scanning and forensic collection projects to real-time court reporting and evidence presentation services
  • Find a solicitor
    Find a solicitor or check their details in the Law Society's definitive directory of law firms in England and Wales

Mathematics

  • Connecting mathematics
    Brief explanations of mathematical terms and ideas in English, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovak. Each term has links to broader, narrower and related terms. Set up by Cambridge University
  • Czech Digital Mathematics Library
    Access to Applications of Mathematics, Archivum Mathematicum, Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae and Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal
  • Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
    Professional and learned society for qualified and practising mathematicians. Its mission is to promote mathematics in industry, business, the public sector, education and research
  • London Mathematical Society
    Major British learned society for mathematics
  • Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
    Centre for academic research in quantitative finance, with special emphasis on alternative investments
  • Royal Statistical Society
    Forum for all who are interested in statistics
  • Smith Institute
    Aims to spread the use of mathematics and computer science, and in particular the intellectual discipline of the mathematical way of thinking, more widely in the formulation of industrial strategy and in the planning of industrial products and processes

Mortality

  • Society of Actuaries 'Living to 100' website
    Information about the 'Living to 100' research initiative on aging, increases in survival rates and the implications. Site includes news, monographs from past symposia, research, media and trade coverage, links to numerous resources and the latest information on the next 'Living to 100 Symposium'.

Pensions & employee benefits

Real estate

Regulation and compliance

  • Board for Actuarial Standards
    BAS contributes to the achievement of the Financial Reporting Council's fundamental aim of supporting investor, market and public confidence in the financial and governance stewardship of listed and other entities by pursuing its aim of setting high quality actuarial standards.
  • FSA
    The Financial Services Authority, an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the UK
  • FSA Central Register
    Register of firms authorised, or formerly authorised, under the FSA 1986 to carry on investment business in the UK. This computerised list enables you to make some basic checks about an investment firm before doing business with it
  • www.havingtheircake.com
    Publicises the effects of contemporary relationships between the investment markets and top managers on business and society, and campaigns for sensible reforms in the financing of industry.
  • International Compliance Association
    The International Compliance Association is a non-profit making professional organisation dedicated to the furtherance of best compliance and anti money laundering practice in the financial services sector
  • The Pensions Regulator
    Regulator of work-based pension schemes in the UK
  • The Compliance Exchange
    E-Information Centre for Compliance Officers, investment professionals and students
  • Compliance Online
    Links to financial services compliance-related sites and daily news on compliance issues


    Software

     

    Statistics & economic indicators: UK

    • Incomes Data Services
      Includes good series of economic indicators
    • National Archives - UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
      Contains archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies. The system has been available since March 1998 and provides open access to the catalogues of all its holdings, and free access to open datasets following a simple registration process. Includes a useful page for mortality data 1901-1992

     

    Statistical organisations (national)

    Taxation

    • Chartered Institute of Taxation
      The senior professional body in the United Kingdom concerned solely with all aspects of taxation
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      Statistics and reports on useful topics from how to fill in your self-assessment return to the latest budget press releases

     

    UK national and local government

    UK parliaments and assemblies


    UK government publications and press releases

    • British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
      A web-based database of British Official Publications 1688-1995
    • The Stationery Office
      Search for official publications by date, title, department or category
    • Official documents
      Full text of selected Government reports - White Papers, Green Papers and House of Commons Papers - and links to Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments and a range of other official information
    • Office of Public Sector Information
      Full text of Acts of Parliament from 1996, Statutory Instruments from 1997, Northern Ireland Statutory Rules from 1998 and other legislative documents
    • UK Parliament
      Includes the full text of many publications produced by the Stationery Office for Parliament, normally available on the same day as the item is published in printed form
    • Scottish Parliament
      Brings together the complete runs of all parliamentary resources. Current editions of the Business Bulletin, Official Reports, Minutes, WHISP (What's Happening in the Scottish Parliament) and other items which bear on current business
    • UKOP On-line
      Subscription catalogue of United Kingdom Official publications together with listings of other major British, European and International organisations. Contains 360,000 continually updated records of official reports and documentation from 1980 onwards
    • Wired-gov
      A personalised e-mail alert service in collaboration with the Government's News Distribution Service (GICS Cabinet Office)


     

     
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