When you’re dealing with data volumes on an insurers’ scale, what’s the best way to manage them? Yiannis Parizas and Phanis Ioannou serve up the newer NoSQL against the tried-and-tested SQL
For someone who believes in role models, new IFoA president Kalpana Shah offers much inspiration herself. She tells Yiannis Parizas about her career path, the need to challenge stereotypes, and why upskilling for actuaries may actually involve some unlearning
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
Coding: those who love it can benefit those who don’t by creating open-source tools. Yiannis Parizas outlines two popular data science programming languages, and the simulator he devised and shared
The second Council meeting of the sessional year took place on Wednesday 30 November at Staple Inn, London – our first in-person meeting since March 2020.