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Almost a fifth of UK adults aged 50 and over believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted their retirement plans, or may do, a new study by Co-op Insurance has uncovered.

Insurance premiums will continue to grow in emerging economies like China this year, research by Swiss Re suggests, although advanced markets will suffer sharp contractions.

Sen Hu and Adrian O’Hagan investigate how cluster analysis with copulas can improve insurance claims forecasting

Jing Xu explains what a quant does in the algorithmic trading world

Universal Credit (UC) rules should be revamped so that renters can receive insurance payouts with no deduction to their benefits, a new report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has suggested.

Radu Popescu and Daniel Suciu compare and contrast backtesting in insurance and banking

Alan Forrest shares the importance of model risk management in the banking sector

John Bayliss writes about his secondment from the Government Actuary’s Department to UK Government Investments as head of modelling – particularly in relation to the government’s student loan portfolio

The coronavirus crisis will hit insurance premium growth three times harder than the 2008 financial crash did, forecasts by Allianz suggest.

Income from workplace pensions in the UK has risen by more than third in just 10 years, analysis by financial services firm Equiniti has revealed.