People and society news: October

Puzzles October 2021

Ciara Izuchukwu looks at how insurers are innovating to provide more personalised products to customers – and why this is so important

Alin Radu, Laurent Sabatié and Davide De Santis discuss insurers’ use of novel data sources and structures to create innovative parametric products

Yiannis Parizas and Nefeli Pamballi explore what it takes for an actuary to become CEO of an insurance organisation

Richard Purcell and Anna Spender present a selection of experts’ opinions on how climate change could affect health, care and protection, drawn from a recent IFoA Health and Care webinar

Niall Fennelly sets out key lessons around electronic health records for insurance, and explores what the future could hold

David Lu and Wendy Wang investigate the increasing global incidence of lung cancer among women who have never smoked

Andrei Badescu, Tsz Chai Fung, X Sheldon Lin and Spark Tseung present a flexible nonlinear regression model and software for insurance risk classification, ratemaking and reserving

The coronavirus containment measures of the past year or so have made communication much more difficult, notes Ron Tsang – how can we improve that, and why is it important?