As the leading professional body for actuaries, we recognise that employers play an important role in supporting IFoA members as they progress through their career.
Our strategy seeks to build stronger and closer relationships with employers. We can then support our members throughout their careers and ensure the IFoA qualification stays a global passport, opening doors to the best opportunities.
Below are several ways to support your actuaries. For more guidance on how the IFoA can work with you to support your actuaries through their studies and professional development, get in touch at employers@actuaries.org.uk.
On this page, find out how to:
You can nominate a contact to play a proactive role in 2-way communication between the IFoA and your organisation. Student Employer Contacts and CPD Coordinators are important volunteer roles that facilitate this communication.
We are also interested in engaging with senior and other key contacts in your organisation.
To stay informed, nominate a contact, or find out more about roles, email us at employers@actuaries.org.uk.
As an employer, you can make a bulk payment of membership subscriptions on behalf of your employees. Please send a copy of your remittance advice and payment breakdown to memberservices@actuaries.org.uk. The Member Services team will let you know when it has been received and processed.
Ensure the members included in your bulk payment have submitted a CPD declaration before sending. If you send a bulk payment, we will process the payment and advise you if any of the members included have not made their declaration. While it is the member’s responsibility to ensure the declaration is made, we may have to return the subscription fee to you if the declaration remains outstanding by the annual deadline date (31 December).
Find out more about subscription fees, reduced rates, and bank transfer details on our membership subscriptions page.
If you have any questions about these services from Member Services, please email memberservices@actuaries.org.uk. You can also call on +44 (0) 131 240 1325.
Some important changes to our syllabus for Associate and Fellow qualifications came into effect in 2023. We have outlined those changes on our curriculum page. An overview of the Associate and Fellow modules is also available for your reference – see qualification structure (32 KB PDF).
Get all the latest IFoA exam news, including updates on the introduction of our new exam system and objective based assessments, on our exam news page.
The IFoA offers recognition of prior learning for IFoA members who have completed a qualification equivalent to our exams. Find out more about at exam exemptions.
Information on exam dates, exam entry dates, and results release dates is available on our exam dates page.
The IFoA prides itself on its exam standards ensuring the high quality professionalism of our members. While the IFoA takes inappropriate conduct seriously, we do want to support you and your employees as they sit our exams.
Visit the following pages to get:
There are several ways your employees and future recruits can grow as they progress through their career.
The VLE is the IFoA's online learning platform and is a repository for video of events and the primary means by which members complete their continuing professional development (CPD). It now hosts a bank of more than 1,000 items of original learning for the actuarial profession. Learn more at Virtual Learning Environment.
To see a demonstration of the VLE and find out about the resources available to your employees, get in touch at employers@actuaries.org.uk.
Becoming an actuarial apprenticeship employer means you can recruit the brightest maths students and develop their talent using funding from the Apprenticeship Levy. If you’re thinking of setting up an actuarial apprenticeship scheme, we can put you in touch with employers who are already running an apprenticeship scheme.
To find out more:
Members must complete 15 hours of CPD, 2 hours of which should be professional skills training.
This is not a requirement if members are student members or are non-practising, or if your organisation participates in the Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) CPD Scheme. However, student members must complete Personal and Professional (PPD) requirements.
Practising certificate holders have extra CPD requirements to meet.
Find out more about the IFoA CPD Scheme at CPD general information.
QAS accredited organisations are eligible to opt into the outcomes-focused QAS Continuing Professional Development Scheme. If you have any questions about the scheme or would like to join, please get in touch at qas@actuaries.org.uk.
If you have any questions, are looking for support, or wish to discuss your business needs with us, get in touch with the Employer Team.