Health care

England and Wales have recorded fewer weekly excess deaths than at any point since late March, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.

COVID-19 has disrupted vital healthcare services in more than half of countries recently surveyed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and low-income nations are among the worst hit.

The UK has suffered around 64,000 more deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than it did during the same period last year, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) suggests.

The timing of Victory in Europe (VE) Day masked the true number of coronavirus deaths in the UK over week 19 of this year, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has warned.

Elena Kulinskaya, Ilyas Bakbergenuly and Lisanne Gitsels revisit longevity modelling

Alistair Chamberlain, examines the impact that COVID-19 is having on business, the actuarial profession and the way we work

In a follow-up feature on risk management and personality, Geoff Trickey looks at the significance of risk types in personality in the response to COVID-19

Would the majority of COVID-19 victims have died this year anyway, as some have suggested? Matthew Edwards and Stuart McDonald investigate

Pamela Hellig considers how actuaries can learn from the principles of bioethics in carrying out their fiduciary duties

Elena Djarlijeva and Lucy Hoppe report on the rise of the ‘quantified self’ – and how wearable devices could impact the world of insurance