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A digital democracy?
2 June 2020
Katy Little, Policy and Public Affairs Assistant, looks at how the move to digital is impacting on the IFoA's enagement with Parliament.
How can actuaries meet the industry challenges around mental health?
1 June 2020
Scott Reid, Chair of the IFoA’s Health & Care Research sub-committee and member of the Health & Care Practice Board, blogs about our virtual round table on mental health.
Volunteering in a time of coronavirus
1 June 2020
IFoA’s Head of Engagement, Debbie Atkins, marks Volunteers’ Week and celebrates one of the IFoA’s greatest assets: our volunteers who continue to dedicate their time and energy to the actuarial profession throughout the global crisis.
The first week of June is Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), a chance to celebrate and thank IFoA volunteers.
Call for volunteers: Disciplinary vacancies
27 May 2020
The IFoA would like to announce that the Disciplinary Appointments Committee (DAC) is currently appointing to the ‘Disciplinary Panel Pool - Actuary member’ and ‘Investigation Actuaries (IA) - member of the IA Pool’. All roles are advertised on our volunteer vacancies website.
We would particularly welcome expressions of interest from IFoA Fellows in the General Insurance area. If you are based in or outside of the UK we would be keen to hear from you.
Identifying insured customers more at risk
27 May 2020
The latest paper from ICAT provides insights into the impact on mortality and morbidity at a high level from the perspective of an insurer, and also how COVID-19 may impact insured populations and which customers are likely to be most at risk. Download Identifying insured customers more at risk by Scott Reid, David Beddows, Raunak Jha, Nicola Oliver and John Ng.
Supporting protection insurance and savings customers
27 May 2020
Richard Purcell and Nick Reilly consider the potential direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 on customers and what can be done by government and UK providers of protection insurance and long-term savings products to support them. Read the ICAT paper, Supporting protection insurance and savings customers.
Are Central Banks disconnected from their financial inclusion responsibilities?
27 May 2020
A year after their paper Understanding Central Bank Digital Currencies, The Cashless Society Working Party is revisiting the topic with a blog series. This time, Sabrina Rochemont considers central banks’ responsibilities in addressing financial exclusion as part of a retail CBDC design.
Impact on pension fund investment strategy
27 May 2020
Shalin Bhagwan, member of the IFoA’s Finance and Investment Board, provides notes for those involved in the stewardship of pension fund investment strategy.
For the second time in just over decade, pension funds find themselves faced with a challenging set of circumstances, one that is characterised by not just risk, but also opportunity.
COVID-19: the need for liquidity and dealing with increased asset volatility – what can insurers and pension funds do?
27 May 2020
Norman Peard is an independent consultant with Investment Committee chairing experience and experience as a Director of a Corporate Pension Trustee, working with leading life insurers and roles in investment banking and regulation.
CMI says VE Day timing masks downward trend in excess weekly deaths
26 May 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing weekly UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. This week’s update shows the position as at week 20 of 2020 (9 May to 15 May) based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 26 May 2020.
The key points of this update are: