We currently find ourselves in a changing work environment. What does it take to nurture high-performing teams now, and how can we make the most of the diverse talents in our workforce?

Although the economic and social challenges from COVID-19 are well behind us, societal changes that emerged during the pandemic still remain – some of which seemingly indefinitely.

Now that we’ve recorded the final episode of We Are Actuaries for 2023 I wanted to recap the top episodes and themes across all of the interviews with actuaries since the We Are Actuaries podcast was born.

Actuaries are known for working long hours, leading to jokes about tasks being completed during “actuarial business hours” instead of traditional business hours.

Why is mentoring important? Many senior actuaries would agree that a mentor can greatly help your actuarial career. Whether you are in a corporate role, a consulting role or working in a wider field…

Progressing through your actuarial career, you might find yourself given the opportunity to take on a management role. Our actuarial education builds our technical skills but we can find ourselves…

A long time ago, work was something we completed at work, and people generally couldn’t reach us at home. Only the very senior actuaries had work-funded mobile…

Two people are flying in a hot air balloon and realize they are lost. They see a man on the ground, so they navigate the balloon to where they can speak to him. They yell to him…

By Desmond Muzorewa. I have always been a technically oriented professional until a few years ago when I decided to develop my leadership skills. An initial step in achieving this goal was to…

Kim is an Actuary with over 15 years experience in the corporate world with varied roles across consulting, reinsurance and life insurance, focused on pricing and product development…

Susanne Szoldra joined APRA in 2009 as an advisor to APRA’s Insurance Capital review project and has managed a team providing technical advice on life insurance to other areas of APRA. 

Amanda is an Actuarial Educator at the Actuaries Institute. She has over 20 years’ experience as an Actuary in general insurance and workers' compensation schemes…

Somewhat akin to International Women’s Day, I have mixed feelings about RUOK Day. On the one hand, I’m glad we are raising awareness about important issues. On the other hand I wonder…

Ryan is a career associate actuary with the Institute of Actuaries in Australia. Originally from South Africa with 8 years of consulting experience there including being a manager at Deloitte…

As actuaries, we are generally comfortable dealing with visible numbers and dollars that we can quantify. We calculate large values such as profit, liabilities and sales, and we make it our business to…

Elyse Sainty is the Director of Impact Investing at Social Ventures Australia (SVA). She leads SVA’s Social Impact Bond related work and has been instrumental in the development of each…

Singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman Dolly Parton once famously said, “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” It’s simple and wise advice, but as our careers…

Chris Dolman is an actuary working at Insurance Australia Group (IAG). His current role of Executive Manager, Data and Algorithmic Ethics helps to ensure that modern decision-making algorithms…

The Australian health care system is characterized by free public hospital care, low- or no-cost access to primary care physicians and subsidized pharmaceuticals for all citizens.

Whether we become Fellows or Associates, we actuaries literally spend years studying. But what happens once we finally reach the end of our formal actuarial studies? Do we think it was worth it?…