Rice Warner walking the walk on diversity and inclusion
With Rice Warner nominated as ‘Employer of the Year’ in the Women in Financial Services Awards 2018, Lesley Traverso discusses the actuarial firm’s ‘Valuing Females Policy’ which includes additional...
View ArticleDipping into Diversity: ‘sound bites of thought’– The power of language in...
How does the nature of the language and idioms you speak influence your perspectives? Here, Lesley Traverso, Convener of the Institute’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group discusses a TED talk on...
View ArticleArt of Persuasion – part one
How do you sell an unsellable idea? What legitimate tricks and secrets of persuasion psychology can you use? Eager persuaders often trap themselves with the common myths of persuasion, rather using...
View ArticleArt of Persuasion – part two
In the previous article, we challenged the popular misconceptions of persuasion as a “battle of the strongest arguments”. The most successful persuaders are not necessarily those who present the most...
View ArticleNew Year’s Motivations
Why do so many New Year’s Resolutions fail? It is not because people enjoy making solemn vows of self-improvement just for the fun of breaking them. Rather, most people fail to put in the right...
View ArticleAustralian Actuaries Climate Index Update
The Australian Actuaries Climate Index (AACI), commissioned by the Actuaries Institute, has been updated to include the data for Winter and Spring 2018.
View ArticleActuaries must call out non-financial risks
The Royal Commission has brought about a permanent change in the political environment and customers trust in financial institutions. Corporations now face significant risk if their business practices...
View ArticleTim Andrews named 2019 Actuary of the Year
The Actuaries Institute is delighted to announce Tim Andrews as Actuary of the Year for 2019 for his influence in shaping how Australian business and policy makers understand and respond to the...
View ArticleRisk Management implications of Coronavirus (COVID-19) – for Non-Executive...
The health and economic implications of COVID-19 will affect a wide range of businesses and their customers. The latest Pandemic Briefing is aimed at assisting Non-Executive Directors, particularly in...
View ArticlePowerful storytelling
Saliya Jinadasa reflects on the power of the story for improving communication and what he learnt on a recent training course.
View ArticleBig Data and the digital economy
In March 2022, Actuaries Institute CEO Elayne Grace presented her conference paper 'Big Data and the Digital Economy: Benefits and Pitfalls in the Insurance Industry' at the Economic implications of...
View ArticleBuilding My Leadership Toolkit
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 augment the ongoing technical...
View ArticleAre “Great Actuaries” and “Great Leaders” Mutually Exclusive?
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, “Can you help us –...
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