Can private health insurancefulfil its societal role when it comes to ensuring coverage for the elderly? Hamza Hanbali shares some lessons from Australia and Belgium

The UK actuarial profession needs to do more to understand mental health, say Chris Knight and Lisa Balboa from the IFoA’s Mental Health Working Party

Supporting the vaccination of emerging nations is an opportunity not only to aid humanitarian efforts, but also to mitigate COVID-19’s global economic impact, says Prachi Patkee

Jennifer Dixon speaks to Stephen Hyams about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK’s health, the lessons we must learn, and how data and technology could help relieve pressure on the NHS

Patrina Effer shares the development of a new IFoA course on sustainability and climate risk

Each year, the IFoA seeks to recognise excellence in actuarial research by awarding prizes for excep-tional research papers.

Council’s fourth meeting of the sessional year took place by videoconference on Thursday 17 June. This meeting was a chance for us to look back at the past year and forward to the next.

The past 18 months changed everything.

From 2021, Annals of Actuarial Science (AAS), the research journal owned by the IFoA and published by Cambridge University Press, has expanded to three issues per year. This increase aims to facilitate the publication of annual special issues that will focus on a key theme.

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