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Social media comments!Honorary fellows are eminent individuals in business, academia and government.
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Clarity on nutrition

I read with interest the interview with Dr John Schoonbee (Changing world health, August 2017), particularly the section regarding dietary guidelines and the concept that dietary fat is not the reason for increasing rates of obesity and diabetes.
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Let's take devolution to the limit

Icki Iqbal suggests an innovative, more individualised, way of funding the NHS and social care
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Transition to a simpler framework

A little over two months has now passed since the Financial Reporting Council’s revised framework of Technical Actuarial Standards (TASs) came into force. For many of our members carrying out work within the scope of the standards, the transition has passed without much ado. In general, the simplification of the framework and the consolidation of the old, generic TASs into a single, high-level generic TAS (the TAS 100) have been welcomed
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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A valuable commodity

It’s that time of year again – summer is drawing to an end, the days are shortening and the subscription-renewal reminders are arriving in our inboxes (you should have received yours on 1 September).
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Grasping the green opportunities

Although I have long appreciated the impact of climate change on many areas of our work – for example, the emergence of new risks and stranded assets – it wasn’t until I met professor Aled Jones to conduct this month’s interview for The Actuary (p14) that I realised the real pervasiveness of climate change underlying our work.
Tuesday 5th September 2017
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