Professionalism Professional Standards and Guidance

Professional Standards and Guidance relating to professionalism.

Current documents

Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct (effective 1 July 2025)

Code of Conduct Explanatory Memorandum (rebranded October 2024)

Guidance to the support the principles and amplification of the Actuaries Institute Code of Conduct (October 2025)

Professional Standards

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development (rebranded October 2024)

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development (rebranded October 2024) Explanatory Memorandum

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development (effective 1 October 2026)

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development Explanatory Memorandum (effective 1 October 2026)

Guidance to Support Members' Compliance with Professional Standard 1 (effective 1 October 2026)

It is important that you also check that there are no multi-practice professional practice documents that may be relevant to your actuarial practice.

Archive documents

Members can request copies of previous exposure drafts by contacting the Institute team at [email protected].

Professional Standards [Archive]

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development (December 2017)

PS 1 Continuing Professional Development (September 2017) Explanatory Memorandum

Code of Conduct [Archive]

Code of Conduct (March 2020 rebranded October 2024)

Guidance to the support the principles and amplification of the Actuaries Institute Code of Conduct (October 2021)

Code of Conduct (March 2020)

Guidance to support the principles and amplifications of the Actuaries Institute Code of Conduct (March 2020)

Code of Conduct November (2009)

Code of Professional Conduct (February 2007)

Code of Professional Conduct (March 2006)

Code of Conduct (December 2001)

Code of Conduct Notice to Members (December 2001)

Code of Conduct (April 1998)

Code of Conduct (December 1995)

Code of Conduct (May 1985)

Code of Conduct (October 1976)

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