Opinion

Letter of the month

I have spent the past few weeks reflecting on my first six months at the IFoA, in part prompted by the presidential cycle, and in part as I have now spent more time leading the IFoA from home than I have in the office!

This month we celebrate 30 years since SIAS, with the support of the IFoA, launched The Actuary to reach the profession’s entire membership.

Each issue of The Actuary brings new highlights, and every time I think: we won’t be able to top that.

A side effect of the coronavirus is that it has turned our friends, family, colleagues and others we may normally interact with face-to-face into potential threats – hence the need to stay at home as much as possible.

Letters from this month

It may not surprise you that my interview and onboarding process with the IFoA was incredibly thoughtful and thorough.

Since the start of my presidency, I’ve had the rare privilege of being able to monopolise this page of The Actuary.

COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, coronavirus, have caught the world by surprise, and currently much of the global population is under lockdown to try and contain the spread.

The Terminator is coming!  At least that's one potential vision of the future, invoked by Boris Johnson at the UN last year while he speculated about artificial intelligence (AI). We can certainly debate how realistic that vision is, and what the possible timescales might be.