Companies worth a total of $856bn (£619bn) in the heavy industry sectors are failing to align their CO2 emissions with the Paris Agreement, analysis by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) has found.
The majority of savers in the UK don't know if their pension scheme is taking any action to help tackle climate change, despite the issue being important to them, a new survey has found.
There have been around 104,600 more deaths than would normally be expected in the UK since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has revealed.
There were 52% more deaths registered in England and Wales in both the third and fourth weeks of this year than during the same weeks of 2019, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has revealed.
Insurance technology companies attracted a record $7.1bn (£5.15bn) of investment across 377 deals last year, analysis by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has revealed.
Just 7% of UK retirees view planning for social care costs as a financial priority, while only 1% see it as their most important consideration, a recent survey by Aegon has uncovered.
Global commercial insurance prices increased by almost a quarter in the final three months of last year, which was the largest rise recorded by insurance company Marsh since 2012.
More than £600bn of equity was available for release in UK homes in the final quarter of last year, breaking all previous records and up £15bn on the previous three months.
IFoA president Tan Suee Chieh discusses how actuaries can work for the public interest in a time of technological and societal upheaval, and looks ahead to 2021’s exciting programme of events
