General Features

Matthew Edwards and Matt Fletcher report on behalf of the COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group on the data and model risks in trying to make sense of the pandemic

Governments cannot divorce social security from public health responses to coronavirus, says the COVID-19 Action Taskforce Social Security group

Colin Wilson provides three key lessons for risk-management post-COVID-19

Guy Thomas considers how policymaker interventions in the housing market could affect the value of no negative equity guarantees

Paul Fulcher and Sihong Zhu explore the history of the ‘prudent person principle’ and its relevance to the Prudential Regulation Authority’s expectations today

Using piecewise Pareto distribution could help create better outcomes in reinsurance treaty pricing, says Saliya Jinadasa

Kartina Tahir Thomson talks about the charitable activities the IFoA Foundation is supporting

Bradley Shearer speaks to three non-executive directors about their advice for aspiring NEDs, what motivates them, and the journeys that led them to their roles

Alan O’Loughlin discusses how actuaries can build a deeper understanding of motor insurance risk using probability-to-cancel models and historical quote data

James Orr discusses how the ability to influence is fundamental to career success and requires management of unconscious bias