The magazine of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries

Features

Changing world healthDr John Schoonbee talks to Gemma Gregson and Richard Purcell about reinventing dietary guidelines, e-cigarettes and advances in diagnostic techniques 10 August 2017

Mortality improvements in declineJon Palin, on behalf of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, reviews the growing evidence for a slowing down of mortality improvements in the UK, noting the trend for pension scheme members is less clear 10 August 2017

Perfecting proxy modelsShaun Lazzari and Oliver Bentley look at managing sources of inaccuracy in Least Squares Monte Carlo proxy model fitting 10 August 2017

Group risk masterclassKatharine Moxham highlights the opportunities and challenges for the group risk protection market and five recent changes that will affect employers 13 April 2017
Off-pisteGuest contributor Joseph Mills advises student actuaries to follow their own path regardless of what others may be doing 13 April 2017
Kirsty Moffat of Hymans RobertsonKirsty Moffat of Hymans Robertson 13 April 2017
A valuation methodology for M&A transactionsEd Morgan and Jeremy Kent describe a valuation methodology for insurance merger and acquisition transactions, the 'Solvency II Appraisal Value, or SII-AV 13 April 2017
Prolonging the longevity trendIt is well known that life expectancy has steadily and markedly increased over time in the UK. Many actuaries apparently take it as a natural law that the historic longevity trend will continue into the future. 13 April 2017
Actuaries in the age of AIBen Pring explains how artificial intelligence is likely to change every aspect of the insurance industry and what insurance firms can do to keep up 13 April 2017
When culture goes wrongIn the second of his short series of articles to demonstrate risk management in practice, Paul Harwood explains what we can learn from financial scandals of the past 13 April 2017
What 2016 told us about deathMatthew Edwards looks at the most interesting pieces of mortality news of 2016, both in the UK and internationally 09 March 2017
Redefining the modern actuaryDavid Hare describes how communication is becoming increasingly important in the actuarial profession 09 March 2017
Actuary of the Future: Neha DedakiaActuary of the Future: Neha Dedakia 09 March 2017