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

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

She literally wrote the book on banks behaving badly. A decade on, it’s more relevant than ever. Now with a new edition on the presses, US academic Anat Admati tells Nico Aspinall why the industry continues to learn nothing from history

Public sector pensions is what Georgina Bedenham of the Government Actuary’s Department doesn’t do. More civil servant than actuary, she tells Ruolin Wang about working on nearly every problem the nation faces and risk-planning for disasters

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?

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

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

Systems expert, university professor, government adviser, fintech entrepreneur, data scientist, public educator. Perhaps the easiest way to describe polymath Sir Anthony Finkelstein is ‘business engineer’. He tells Stephen Hyams about his wealth of important work

An unusual combination of factors has refocused the non-life reinsurance sector. Yiannis Parizas asks chief underwriter Michael Hinz to reflect on January’s renewal and assess the shape of things to come