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With liquidity rising up insurers’ agendas in Europe and elsewhere, Lauri Saraste sets out his standard for assessing the risk.

How to set up a pricing strategy without any historic data? Massimo Cavadini, Veronica Coronel Vera and Thibault Imbert describe the orienting framework they devised.

GDP, inflation, mortality rates – we’re all so used to these measures, we take them for granted. But they are no longer fit for purpose, argues Alison Longman

Bank runs are no longer rare occurences and they now happen seemingly overnight. Why can’t we prevent them, and why isn’t our stress-testing working, asks Lawrence Habahbeh?

Nick Silver, one of the three commended entrants who answered this question in the IFoA’s thought-leadership essay competition last year, summarises his paper. In it, he makes the case for a Swedish-style system

While AI chatbots have many uses, including in the field of education, Mark Farrell asks: are we in danger of making the ultimate concession and sacrificing our brainpower to it?

Data scientists – different beasts, right? But feel they’re taking over in some areas? Actuaries can point to distinct advantages, says Jack Harrington, and can, in fact, benefit from working alongside them

The remit of the chief sustainability officer is too broad, argue Cillian Williamson and Jack Harrington. We need a top-level role that deals specifically with climate

An innovative virtual work-experience programme helps new actuaries avoid feeling like aliens dropped onto a foreign planet when they start their first jobs. Its founders, Pamela Hellig, Previn Pillay and Soshan Soobramoney, explain how ’AIM’ works

You’ve developed your model; now, you need to put it on a user-friendly web app… Aristides Zenonos and Phanis Ioannou outline one of the most popular software tools in the sector – Shiny