General Features

Georgia Knowles and Richard Zhou discuss cultural differences as a driver of life insurance demand, and consider how the industry can use cultural and behavioural psychology to create better products

Andrew Cairns, Torsten Kleinow and Jie Wen introduce the new Longevity Index for England and the accompanying open access app

Richard Olswang, John Jenkins, Tom Bulpitt and Darren Clay discuss the theoretical and practical challenges posed by IFRS 17 discount rates

Bradley Shearer and Jane Barrett on building a satisfying career throughout your working life

Actuaries can play a major role in helping decentralised financial technologies reach their full potential, says Zhixin Li

How can we be more supportive of neurodivergent employees in the workplace? Chika Aghadiuno explains

Paul Sweeting reflects on the way we think about, and distinguish between, different types of risk

Darshan Purmessur and Haedeh Nazari examine the potential scenarios arising from COVID-19 in different insurance classes, and the importance of stress and scenario testing

Neptune Jin shares the Data Science Research Working Party’s work looking at the merits of different supervised learning techniques for claim frequency modelling

Joel Walmsley writes about the past, present and future of artificial intelligence from a philosophical point of view