Careers

As The Actuary celebrates its 30th birthday, David Raymont digs into the archives to acknowledge its predecessor Fiasco, which ran for 127 issues between February 1978 and June 1990

Arpit Surana is a guest student editor

From FIA to IFA What is an independent financial advisor, how do you become one, and why is this relevant to actuaries? Darryl Boulton explains

Bradley Shearer is executive director of Protagion Active Career Management, actuary and CFA charterholder

The Actuary has been connecting the actuarial community since 1990. In this 30th anniversary commemorative edition, some of our past editors tell us about their time at the helm

The new knowledge frontier

Geoff Trickey explains why it is important for decision-making teams to include people with a variety of risk dispositions

James Orr discusses how the ability to influence is fundamental to career success and requires management of unconscious bias

Gamblers could tell us a lot about how risk-seeking people view insurance, argues Adeetya Tantia

IFoA president Tan Suee Chieh and Diversity Advisory Group chair Chika Aghadiuno speak to editor Dan Georgescu about how the actuarial profession must evolve to better reflect society’s ethnic and social diversity