Seen at Institutional Investor:
The Faculty of Actuaries is ready to begin discussing a possible merger with the Institute of Actuaries, Professional Pensions reports.
Unsurprisingly Scottish actuaries are a little concerned with the potential that the British actuarial profession could become a bit too London-centric if such a merger were to occur.
There’s an awful lot of actuaries up in Scotland, with several of the bigger life insurers and the consultancies are thick on the ground…still, most of the UK finance sector is based in London so it’s fairly Londoncentric merger or no merger.
The proposal seems to be in the early stages at the moment, although the Institute president did mention it in his monthly spot in the Actuary (the UK’s actuarial magazine)
http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/pdfs/07_10_40.pdf
(Possible bias in this from a London based actuary!)