Skip to main content
The Actuary: The magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - return to the homepage Logo of The Actuary website
  • Search
  • Visit The Actuary Magazine on Facebook
  • Visit The Actuary Magazine on LinkedIn
  • Visit @TheActuaryMag on Twitter
Visit the website of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Logo of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Main navigation

  • News
  • Features
    • General Features
    • Interviews
    • Students
    • Opinion
  • Topics
  • Knowledge
    • Business Skills
    • Careers
    • Events
    • Predictions by The Actuary
    • Whitepapers
    • Moody's - Climate Risk Insurers series
    • Webinars
    • Podcasts
  • Jobs
  • IFoA
    • CEO Comment
    • IFoA News
    • People & Social News
    • President Comment
  • Archive
Quick links:
  • Home
  • Categories

Topics

yug

World view: Cambodia

Jaishree Kularajah shares what it’s like to work in this south-east Asian nation’s burgeoning life insurance industry
Global
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
il

When 'human' isn't female

It was only last year that the first anatomically correct female crash test dummy was created. With so much data still based on the male perspective, are we truly meeting all consumer needs? Adél Drew discusses her thoughts, based on the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
General Insurance
Data Science
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
hjb

Book review: A Risky Business

A familiar question for actuaries, student or qualified, is: ‘what does an actuary do?’. Friends, work colleagues, US immigration officers and non-executive directors alike have all asked me this at some point. We tend to develop our own responses – ‘insurance maths’, ‘financial projections’ and so on – to move the conversation along, but they probably aren’t great.
Risk & ERM
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
iugu

Interview: chemist and climate expert Sir David King on how actuaries can save the Arctic

Actuaries can save the Arctic, according to esteemed chemist and climate-change expert Sir David King. He tells Alex Martin that risk management is as relevant to preserving the planet as groundbreaking science
Global
Environment
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
lugy

New series on soft skills: emotional intelligence

Starting our new series on soft skills in the workplace, Amy Jacobson argues that, for actuaries, emotional intelligence is as important as grey matter
Soft skills
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
dty

Can we embrace a circular economy?

With our pull on the planet’s resources, are we bold enough to embrace a circular economy? The potential benefits are not just material, argues Travis Elsum
Global
Environment
Technology
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Open-access content
res

Interview: Tim Harford on the importance of questioning our assumptions

Tim Harford speaks to Ruolin Wang about why it’s so important to slow down and question things from emotive headlines to the numbers and algorithms we use in our work
Risk & ERM
Data Science
Wednesday 30th November 2022
Open-access content
uh

The road to understanding

Vrishti Goel examines how data analytics could provide more personalised insurance products, for example within the motor insurance industry
General Insurance
Data Science
Wednesday 30th November 2022
Open-access content
k

Next level: getting to where you want to be

Chetan Ghosh reflects on the path he took from university graduate to CIO, and the important lessons he learnt along the way
Soft skills
Wednesday 30th November 2022
Open-access content
hv

Effective action: how pension funds demonstrate action on climate risk

Michael Sher discusses how pension fund trustees could demonstrate to stakeholders that they are acting on climate risk
Pensions
Risk & ERM
Environment
Wednesday 30th November 2022
Open-access content

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • Page 1
  • Current page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »
Subscribe

More from Topics...

Data Science

Investment

Risk & ERM

Pensions

Environment

Soft skills

General Insurance

Regulation Standards

Health care

Technology

Reinsurance

Global

Life insurance

Latest Jobs

Investment Consultant

Scotland / Scotland, Edinburgh / London, England
Up to £70000.00 per annum
Reference
148689

Market Risk Capital Actuary/Quant

London (Central)
£65,000 - £115,000 plus bonus and package
Reference
148688

Experience Analysis Contractor

England
Negotiable
Reference
148687
See all jobs »
 
 
 
 

Sign up to our newsletter

News, jobs and updates

Sign up

Subscribe to The Actuary

Receive the print edition straight to your door

Subscribe
Spread-iPad-slantB-june.png

Topics

  • Data Science
  • Investment
  • Risk & ERM
  • Pensions
  • Environment
  • Soft skills
  • General Insurance
  • Regulation Standards
  • Health care
  • Technology
  • Reinsurance
  • Global
  • Life insurance
​
FOLLOW US
The Actuary on LinkedIn
@TheActuaryMag on Twitter
Facebook: The Actuary Magazine
CONTACT US
The Actuary
Tel: (+44) 020 7880 6200
​

IFoA

About IFoA
Become an actuary
IFoA Events
About membership

Information

Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
Cookie Policy
Think Green

Get in touch

Contact us
Advertise with us
Subscribe to The Actuary Magazine
Contribute

The Actuary Jobs

Actuarial job search
Pensions jobs
General insurance jobs
Solvency II jobs

© 2023 The Actuary. The Actuary is published on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries by Redactive Publishing Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any part is not allowed without written permission.

Redactive Media Group Ltd, 71-75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ