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What kind of life actuary are you and how has your job been impacted by climate change? Answers on a postcard, please…The IFoA’s Life Climate Change Working Party sought to find out.

AI is coming… Be alert! Throughout financial services, large language models are already proving better at tasks than juniors... Believe the hype, says Chris Mullan

New developments are fast changing the ways in which we model. But, while GBMs are widely used, neural networks seem to be left on the backburner. Jacky Poon puts them to the test

Three IFoA Working Party members describe how a dynamic discount rate approach can help to separate funding volatility ‘signals’ from market ‘noise’

Yiannis Parizas discusses a holistic approach to optimising a portfolio’s pricing strategy.

The popularity of funded reinsurance in the UK’s bulk purchase annuity market has put new regulation on the horizon. Kenny Cheng looks at the proposals

Facing a future of natural disasters, how can Australia build the resilience of its home insurance market? Brundha Krishnamoorthi analyses the state of play, and what the country could be doing better.

Zac Townsend and Annie Tay are busy reimagining life insurance. They tell Zhixin Lim about running a digital asset-denominated life insurer and actuaries’ relevance in the nascent digital asset industry.

With all the advances of AI come all the risks of data over-assumptions. What can insurers do about this, asks Atreyee Bhattacharyya?

Implementing IFRS 17 was, at times, tedious. Devadeep Gupta and Richard Schneider ask: could AI take over some of the more mundane tasks in future transformation projects?