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The proportion of employees with workplace pensions in 2014 was 59%, according to research.

The value of European hotel investment transactions in 2014 was €14.4bn (£10.4bn) – an increase of 86% from 2013.

A forum for actuaries has been launched to help the profession come together and learn how best to respond to the deadly coronavirus sweeping the world.

UK travel insurers expect to pay a record £275m to customers this year as coronavirus grounds flights across the world, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has revealed.

A sharp recession is imminent in the vast majority of developed and emerging economies as the deadly coronavirus forces businesses to shut down across the world.

Paper: A Cashless Society in 2019 Cash is under pressure. A tense 2018 led to a tumultuous 2019: Facebook's announcement of plans to launch its Libra cryptocurrency with a consortium of companies united all regulators against the project.

The Terminator is coming!  At least that's one potential vision of the future, invoked by Boris Johnson at the UN last year while he speculated about artificial intelligence (AI). We can certainly debate how realistic that vision is, and what the possible timescales might be.

This edition of the magazine focuses on data science and its applications, which will be a recurring theme for the IFoA.

Obituary: Ted Belmont (1950-2017)

Sharad Bajla is an actuary at Asia Capital Re in Singapore, and is originally from India

The proportion of employees with workplace pensions in 2014 was 59%, according to research.

The value of European hotel investment transactions in 2014 was €14.4bn (£10.4bn) – an increase of 86% from 2013.