General Features

Moving between industry and academia can provide great personal insight, as the first part in our series shows

Małgorzata Śmietanka and Philip Treleaven explain the technologies making up the data-driven insurance picture

Darko Popovic, Chadwick Cheung and Zhixin Lim of the Risk Management in a Digital World Working Party run through some of the most commonly asked questions about blockchain

Patrick Kelliher covers issues in modelling dependencies between operational and non-operational risks

Jing Xu explains what a quant does in the algorithmic trading world

Radu Popescu and Daniel Suciu compare and contrast backtesting in insurance and banking

Alan Forrest shares the importance of model risk management in the banking sector

John Bayliss writes about his secondment from the Government Actuary’s Department to UK Government Investments as head of modelling – particularly in relation to the government’s student loan portfolio

The high-flying new president of the IFoA, Tan Suee Chieh, talks to Dan Georgescu about his rise to the top and his vision for the actuarial profession

Stochastic claims reserving models are not widely understood – but Robert Scarth wants to change this. Here, he discusses models for one-year risk