Professional in Uncertainty

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) develops online Professional Skills Training (PST) content for its Members to enhance their professional skills and to assist those Members who are subject to the requirements of the CPD Scheme 2020/2021 meet their Professional Skills Training requirements under the Scheme.

The IFoA’s online content is just one option to satisfy the requirements which are to undertake a minimum of 2 hours of “CPD Activities with a Learning Outcome related to managing professional ethical challenges”. The content includes a range of video case studies covering professional and ethical issues.

Unlike previous years, there will be a phased release of content this year which we anticipate will amount to 3 separate releases over the CPD year.  The release dates are November 2020 with subsequent releases by early February and early June 2021. This will provide Members with plenty of content well ahead of the end of the current CPD year, ending on 31 August 2021.

Here is a taster of the video case studies in Release 1 published in November 2020:

• See how a young, newly appointed Valuation Actuary at a local small general insurance company copes with some challenges dealing with the Senior Management Team, making a presentation to the Board and managing his team;
• Following the retirement of the previous Chief Actuary, his replacement is in post and it doesn’t take long to see that he has a very different approach to his predecessor.
• Two actuaries participate in a live TV interview, but have they done their homework?

For each video case study there is a separate video where actuaries and others discuss the issues raised.
 

View the 2020/2021 videos
 

Request a Toolkit from professional.skills@actuaries.org.uk if you wish to run a professional skills session for your colleagues or local association.  This will give you access to downloadable links for the videos, useful tips on running a session and access to a range of supplementary content.