The Actuary January/February 2022

Andrew Smith and Oliver Bentley share their ‘Brownian blancmange’ fractal, and how it can be used in hedging

Colin Redman takes a look at the UK government’s plan to fix social care, and the role actuaries can play in helping to solve the issue

Applying machine learning techniques to electronic health records could revolutionise healthcare and insurance, say Atreyee Bhattacharyya and Kanishka Jindal

What will the FCA’s new price walking rules mean for the UK insurance industry? Jeremy Keating explains

With the UK’s first collective defined contribution scheme about to launch, Madalena Cain and Chintan Gandhi explain how these pension schemes can provide the lifetime incomes that savers want – with no surprise costs for employers

Evan Tanotogono discusses how a digital approach to product development could help drive up penetration in low-coverage markets such as Indonesia

Stephen Carlin explains the concept of decision science, and how its use can benefit actuaries

Kit Yates tells Ruolin Wang why making mathematics more accessible to the public is so important – especially in light of COVID-19 and the climate challenge

In our second article on the IFoA Curriculum we look at how professional work is evolving, and how non-technical ‘soft’ skills areplaying an increasing rolealongside traditional actuarial competencies

On 17 November 2021 the Adjudication Panel considered an allegation of misconduct against Mr Rogaly (the respondent) relating to historic non-compliance with the CPD Scheme.