Opinion

Letter from Lee Faulkner FIA.

Letter from Charles Cowling.

Letter from Louise Pryor and Simon Jones, Chair and Deputy Chair of the Resource and Environment board.

The environment that actuaries work in continues to change rapidly, and the IFoA relies on the expertise of our Council members to help guide us through the many challenges these changes bring.

Late last year Council gathered and discussed, at a very high level, the IFoA’s strategy.

Global long-term longevity extension trends are well known to both actuaries and non-actuaries. These trends are developing slowly in most parts of the world, but could that pace change?

In October and November, a number of young women gathered in London and Edinburgh for the IFoA’s first ‘Count Us In’ events – educational forums centred on helping girls better understand career opportunities in STEM, and especially the actuarial field.

As big data and artificial intelligence collide with deep social and environmental trends, the world is looking to skilled professionals, bound by a code of ethics, to safely navigate these turbulent times.

Why did mobile phones become so necessary? Why did we stop posting letters and start sending emails?

I recently attended the IFoAs event The Actuary as a Data Scientist, which gave an interesting window on the profession’s future.