General Features

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

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

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

After the dust settles

The new knowledge frontier

Geoff Trickey explains why it is important for decision-making teams to include people with a variety of risk dispositions