Simon Wasserman and Matthew Myring-McCullagh explain the importance of the Joint Forum on Actuarial Regulation’s Risk Perspective publication

Kunj Behari Maheshwari and Brian Ring discuss considerations for excluding factors that do not impact insurance cashflows but may influence observable prices in emerging market discount rates

Nicole Pang looks at emerging trends in operational risk modelling, and how firms are improving their operational risk models

Amerjit Grewal and Matthew Byrne suggest improvements to the current reporting techniques used by reserving actuaries

Ziling Jiang explains how insurers can use the ‘Solvency Sharpe ratio’ to help make good investment decisions

Moving between industry and academia can provide great personal insight, as the second part in our series shows

James Sharpe, Nicole Austin and Andrew Rowe of the Extreme Events Working Party consider the economic outcomes that COVID-19 could cause for insurers

Prashansa Jain discusses her work developing financial solutions for low and middle-income households in the Philippines

Shalin Bhagwan and Gareth Mee on the benefits and challenges of investing in illiquid assets for defined contribution pension schemes

Diversity isn’t just a moral imperative, says George Burton – it brings tangible benefits to an organisation