12/12 - The Actuary - December 2012

Features:

• Investment: growth back on track - Can the UK recover from the worst trend growth cut since the industrial revolution? Chris Wagstaff sees the first green shoots
• Q&A: Andrew Smith - Steve Mills discusses free thinking, Solvency II and bow ties with Finlaison medal-winning Andrew Smith
• GI: Floods, debt and gears - Can science break or slow the traditional insurance cycle? Graham Fulcher and Phil Ellis weigh up the arguments
• Modelling: Doctor Who and the pensions projections - Steve Mills explores whether the work of two statisticians might have uses in wider fields
• Investment: Local solution to a national problem - Dr William Scott and Ruth Penny take a closer look at the UK's only independent savings bank
• Soft Skills: Role model - Jeremy Lazarus looks at how neurolinguistic programming can help actuaries make a good start in a new job