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An update from the IFoA’s Covid-19 Action Taskforce [ICAT] Risk Management workstreams
Webinar25 January 2021Covid-19 has required an urgent and cross-practice initiative to facilitate the extensive impact this pandemic has across all industries. IFoA members have been keen to contribute in a different way, so we developed the IFoA Covid-19 Action Taskforce [ICAT] to coordinate our effort, with a more efficient governance.
We have over 500 volunteers and countless topics which we have amalgamated into 93 workstreams.
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ARC Research Webinar: Behavioural Finance
Webinar21 January 2021
This event is now fully booked. To join the wait list, please register here.Understanding biases in trustee decision making
What is the evidence that “behavioural” factors, such as human psychology, company culture, corporate politics and conflicts of interest, cause institutional investors to deviate from optimal behaviour? Professor Peter Ayton (Leeds University Business School) presents his findings from the first extensive research programme conducted into the decision making processes of pension fund trustees.
This free-to-view webinar is the first in the IFoA’s 2021 series highlighting its commissioned research through its Actuarial Research Centre (ARC) and offers an opportunity to put questions to the panel on the practical implications for actuaries working in investments and other areas.
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Guarantees in Retail Products – Do they have a Future in the UK?
Online webinar15 January 2021Guaranteed products evolved to address genuine customer needs and wants. However, they have fallen from favour in the UK market over time (yet still remain popular in some other countries).
The Long-Term Product Guarantees Working Party was established by the Life Board in 2019 to investigate long term guarantees, traditionally available as pension, investment and annuity products in the UK.
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Inside the Banking Boardroom – Opportunities for Actuaries
Webinar14 January 2021The actuarial skill set has much to offer the banking industry. So many of the skills that actuaries acquire during their working life translate across to the world of banking and yet banking is perceived as an alien environment to many actuaries. But is it?
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Presidential Update - January 2021
Webinar12 January 2021A recording of this webinar is now available for members to watch on the IFoA's Virtual Learning Environment. Find out more.
As the halfway point of his tenure as IFoA President approaches, Tan Suee Chieh would like to invite you to his Presidential Update on 12 January 2021 at 08.30am (UTC).
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Sessional Webinar: To the end game and beyond
Webinar11 January 2021
A recording of this webinar is available to watch on the IFoA's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Find out more.
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Autumn Pensions Webinar: Impact of Dividends
Webinar8 December 2020
The talk will provide an understanding of the priorities and relationships between deficit reduction contributions, in the context of wider scheme funding, and different types of value outflow from the employer based on the working party’s recently published report. -
Autumn Pensions Webinar: Legal update - The letter of the law
Webinar7 December 2020Patrick Kennedy, Partner at Gateley Legal and Founding Director of Entrust (a leading professional pensions trustee company), will be delivering an update on the latest legal developments during the course of 2020. With both a pensions legal perspective and over 25 years of trustee service, Patrick will seek to highlight how the letter of the law has continued to evolve against the backdrop of a difficult and challenging year -
Autumn Pensions Webinar: Cash is King - What next for CDI?
Webinar4 December 2020Cash-flow driven investing is a game-changer for DB pension funds navigating their end-game. Suitable for sponsors who want to reduce risks on their balance sheets. And for trustees, it shifts the focus to providing greater certainty of returns, managing funding level volatility and ensuring they have enough income to pay cash-flow requirements. -
UK Town Hall 10:00-11:00
Webinar4 December 2020
IFoA President Tan Suee Chieh would like to invite you to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) virtual UK Town Hall 2020, hosted by Tan Suee Chieh with IFoA’s Immediate Past President, John Taylor, President Elect, Louise Pryor and IFoA Chief Executive, Stephen Mann.
This event is now fully booked. To join the wait list, please register 
The talk will provide an understanding of the priorities and relationships between deficit reduction contributions, in the context of wider scheme funding, and different types of value outflow from the employer based on the working party’s recently published report. 
IFoA President Tan Suee Chieh would like to invite you to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) virtual UK Town Hall 2020, hosted by Tan Suee Chieh with IFoA’s Immediate Past President, John Taylor, President Elect, Louise Pryor and IFoA Chief Executive, Stephen Mann.