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Happy new year from Jessica Elkin and, she says, while the future looks bright for actuaries, it’s always worth planning for a worse-case scenario

It will be interesting to explore what the end of the fossil-fuel era will mean for business and financial services

Nico Aspinall, chair of the IFoA Resource and Environment Board, talks to Cintia Cheong about raising the profile of the actuarial profession and what actuaries can do in the context of climate change

Joseph Lu considers the risk of pandemics and whether actuaries can go beyond just modelling financial losses towards working on prevention

The recent growth of the takaful model is impressive, says Zainal Abidin Mohd Kassim but this is in danger of being restricted by a general lack of understanding of the product

Andy Cox goes inside an internal audit department and is surprised by what he finds – a job and some tips on dealing with your internal auditor

Simon Brimblecombe looks at the role of social security in helping to deal with the effects of climate change around the world

Lady Susan Rice, a global leader in the banking industry, talks to Richard Purcell and Stephen Hyams about emerging risks, encouraging sustainability in business, and jumping into the unknown

Joseph Lu says public data provision will help actuaries to provide better solutions

Agony actuary: Rumour has it