What now for liability-driven investments, after last year’s crash in the market? Pensions experts Rakesh Girdharlal and Moiz Khan say it should lead to a more balanced approach
Ethical, varied and a growing market – ‘takaful’ Islamic insurance is worth knowing about, wherever you’re from and whatever your beliefs, says Ali Asghar Bhuriwala
A familiar question for actuaries, student or qualified, is: ‘what does an actuary do?’. Friends, work colleagues, US immigration officers and non-executive directors alike have all asked me this at some point. We tend to develop our own responses – ‘insurance maths’, ‘financial projections’ and so on – to move the conversation along, but they probably aren’t great.
Tim Harford speaks to Ruolin Wang about why it’s so important to slow down and question things from emotive headlines to the numbers and algorithms we use in our work
Alex Martin and Ryan Allison discuss the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference – and why biodiversity is an aspect of the sustainability crisis that actuaries must not ignore