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What is it that intrigues us about maths? As her latest book is published, category theorist Eugenia Cheng says it’s the smallest yet biggest question of all: why?

Chris O’Brien takes us though the legal constraints affecting the way in which pension trustees deal with commutations. And should commutation factors be reviewed more frequently?

Assessing the three largest finance crises in recent history, Ree Chen, David Chen and Susan Siew look at their common themes, and lessons to be drawn

Derek Steeden and Andrew Reid discuss how capital-backed funding arrangements can help defined benefit pension schemes map out a satisfying final destination

Earthquakes have literally shaken up our world recently. We still cannot predict them, so how best to model the financial risks? Working on a fault line in Greece, Alexandros Zimbidis and Emmanouil Louloudis have come up with a new method

We are kidding ourselves about the favoured climate-risk scenarios, says Mark Cliffe. A more realistic alternative incorporates the inconvenient truths they ignore: real life and human nature

With recent A&E waiting times historically high, Stuart McDonald and Natalie Tikhonovsky ask: is this causing additional deaths?

Since its inception a few years ago, a framework for net-zero-aware pensions investments, published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, has been evolving. Maria Nazarova-Doyle explains why she is a fan

Like a game of Jenga, we keep whittling away at the building blocks of the Earth to make new things to precariously pile on top. But actuaries can help anchor the wobble, says Sandy Trust

We all know about aqueducts, baths and roads, but what economic legacy did the Romans leave us? And what’s its relevance now? Paul Harwood asks actuary and classicist George Maher