The Actuary Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Bringing news, opinions and tips to help actuaries stay informed about policies and practice developments affecting their work. If you'd like to recommend a topic, be a part of the discussion or sponsor an episode and gain exposure across a highly engaged audience, please email theactuary-sales@redactive.co.uk.

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Welcome to the 12th episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets migration expert Madeleine Sumption, cancer researcher Ayse Arik, and IFoA Council member Masimba Zata. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the 11th episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets Flood Re CEO Perry Thomas, government disaster-risk specialist Georgina Bedenham, and Dubai-based managing partner Shivash Bhagaloo. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the 10th episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets climate scientist Tim Lenton, actuary and diabetes researcher Scott Reid, and volunteering award winner Clara Hughes. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the ninth episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets Lloyd's chief actuary Emma Stewart, health actuary David Beddows and strategist Swati Umre from Mumbai. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the eighth episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets internet interrogator Helen Margetts, social care proponent Tom Kenny, and pricing educator Catrin Townsend. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the seventh episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets financier and diversity campaigner Helena Morrissey, actuarial technologist Daniel Ramsay, and Malaysian actuary and volunteer Yoon Yew Khuen. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the sixth episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets new IFoA president Paul Sweeting, pensions enthusiast Alexandra Miles, and sports-analysis actuary Bart Huby. https://www.theactuary.com/

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Welcome to the fifth episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts. Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries. Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets terrorism reinsurer Tom Clementi, IFoA CEO Paul Lewis, and risk actuary Yasmeen Husain.

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Welcome to the fourth episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts.

Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries.

Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets climate scientist Peter Stott, health and care actuary Mohamed Elsheemy, and Egyptian actuarial pioneer Sarah Mazhar.

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Welcome to the third episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts.

Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries.

Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter, sustainability expert Lucy Saye, and wider-fields entrepreneur Karabo Morule.

This podcast is sponsored by Milliman

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Welcome to the second episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts.

Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries.

Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets Lord Davies of Brixton, Sarah O'Sullivan of Phoenix Group, and Indian life insurer Akshay Dhand.

This podcast is sponsored by Milliman (https://uk.milliman.com/en-gb/)

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Welcome to the first episode of The Actuary’s series of video podcasts.

Find intriguing chat and professional insights from inspiring leaders and fellow actuaries.

Join host Jon Watkins for 30 minutes as he meets IFoA president Kartina Tahir Thomson, Polly Cripps of the IFoA’s Pensions Gap Working Party, and sustainability actuary Alex Martin.

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In this episode we are joined by experts from Moody’s Analytics and Isio, to discuss their experience of the practical applications of climate scenarios, and the opportunities and challenges insurers face in climate-conditioning their processes.

Speakers:

– Alasdair Thompson, Director, Research, Moody’s Analytics

– Laura Tadrowski, Director, Advisory Services, Moody’s Analytics

– Leah Worrall, Deputy Head of Sustainable Investment Insight & Investment Consultant, Isio

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In this second episode in a series of three, we are joined by climate experts, Nick Jessop and Riccardo Rebonato for a thought-provoking discussion. Nick and Riccardo explore the ways that standard climate scenarios, such as those produced by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), can be used to create short-term stresses for financial markets and broaden the scope of climate analysis.

Guests:
Nick Jessop, Senior Director, Research, Moody’s Analytics
Riccardo Rebonato, Scientific Director of EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute and Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School

In association with Moody's Analytics.

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Exploring climate change modelling for insurers
In a series of three podcasts, we are joined by experts from Moody’s and other industry specialists to explore the impact of climate change on risk modelling. We address the expectations and challenges of performing adequate analysis on both assets and liabilities, the practical applications, and what it means for processes such as the ORSA and SAA. Finally, we generate some thought-provoking discussion on whether insurers are missing some important risk factors in their analysis by looking too short-term.

Episode 1: How insurers are tackling climate risk modellingIn this episode we are joined by three Moody’s experts to explore how insurers are quantifying and assessing climate-related risks. We discuss how capturing both transition and physical risk is creating a new challenge for the industry.

Guests:

  • Gavin Conn, Director, Insurance Research & Strategy, Moody’s Analytics
  • Ragav Sawhney, Director, Product Management, Longevity, Moody’s RMS
  • Joss Matthewman, Senior Director, Product Management, Global Climate, Moody’s RMS

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What is data integrity, and why is a plumber urgently required? No matter the size of the company, data integrity is essential to insurers, particularly in capital modelling. In this episode, sponsored by AON, Tessa Moulton and Ed Muldowney set out the importance of data integrity, and outline ways to achieve it.

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This podcast series from The Actuary magazine, the official magazine of the IFoA, will bring news, opinions and tips to help actuaries stay informed about policies and practice developments affecting their work. If you'd like to recommend a topic, be a part of the discussion or sponsor an episode and gain exposure across a highly engaged audience, please email theactuary-sales@redactive.co.uk.