The Actuary July 2021

Bradley Shearer and Jane Barrett on building a satisfying career throughout your working life

Actuaries can play a major role in helping decentralised financial technologies reach their full potential, says Zhixin Li

How can we be more supportive of neurodivergent employees in the workplace? Chika Aghadiuno explains

Paul Sweeting reflects on the way we think about, and distinguish between, different types of risk

Darshan Purmessur and Haedeh Nazari examine the potential scenarios arising from COVID-19 in different insurance classes, and the importance of stress and scenario testing

Neptune Jin shares the Data Science Research Working Party’s work looking at the merits of different supervised learning techniques for claim frequency modelling

Joel Walmsley writes about the past, present and future of artificial intelligence from a philosophical point of view

Alastair Black looks at how the increasing use of analytics is affecting life insurance pricing

Edward Plowman explains some of the developments currently taking place in insurtech, and why actuaries must embrace this change if they are to succeed

Nikolaos Kefallinos discusses the development of national no-claims discount schemes, and their contribution to public road safety