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

People and society news: December

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

Kevin Olding is the creator of the Mathsaurus website (mathsaurus.com) and YouTube channel, and a PhD student in the SAMBa Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Bath

December puzzles and solutions

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

Who do we think you are?

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

A new domain