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Journals and publications

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Portals and resource lists

  • The Actuary Jobs
    The Actuary Jobs is the official job board for SIAS and the IFoA
  • Actuary Jobs
    Search actuarial jobs across all sectors
  • British Library Online Catalogue
    Search the 8.5 million books and other material in the British Library's catalogues
  • 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.
  • Copac library catalogue
    Search the merged online catalogues of the major university and national libraries in the UK and Ireland 
  • www.directoryinsurance.com
    Directory of insurance companies on the web
  • Incomes Data Services
    Includes good series of economic indicators
  • International actuarial links
    A wide-ranging page of links to resources for actuaries maintained by Emil Valdez, University of Connecticut
  • 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
  • Partnership Bulletin
    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.
  • StatProb.com
    A free online encyclopaedia of statistics and probability hosted by Springer and sponsored by leading statistical societies.
  • timetric.com
    Latest public statistics from sources including the World Bank, Eurostat and the Office for National Statistics.

Accountancy

  • Accounting Web
    Free registration includes news and information, newswires, document library and careerzone
  • International Accounting Standards Board
    Website of the International Accounting Standards Board which holds information on the IAS 19 disclosure standard for pension scheme liabilities

Banking

  • The Bank of England
    The central bank of the United Kingdom
  • 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

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
  • 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

Mathematics

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'.

Real estate

  • Investment Property Forum
    An independent organisation aimed at improving the awareness, understanding and efficiency of property as an investment.

 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
  • 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 Resource Network
    Links to financial services compliance-related sites and daily news on compliance issues

Statistics and economic indicators

UK national and local government

  • British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
    A web-based database of British Official Publications 1688-1995
  • Central Government site
    Includes index to all departments and agencies
  • Corporation of London
  • Department for Work and Pensions
    Information about current social security legislation and benefits. The Department was formed on 8 June 2001 from parts of the former Department of Social Security, parts of the former Department for Education and Employment, and the Employment Service
  • Government Actuary's Department
    Providing mainly public sector clients with independent, professional actuarial advice
  • Office of Fair Trading
    The aim of the OFT is to make markets work well for consumers
  • 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
  • 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
  • UK Legislation
    Full text of Acts of Parliament from 1988, Statutory Instruments from 1987 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
  • 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
  • Welsh Assembly
  • Wired-gov A personalised e-mail alert service in collaboration with the Government's News Distribution Service (GICS Cabinet Office)