The Faculty and Institute of Actuaries (FIA) has appointed past president Roger Corley and two other actuaries to its five-person committee of inquiry into the implications of the Equitable Life closure.

The two other actuaries are Malcolm Murray, another past president, and Bill Abbott, Legal & General's group actuary. Additionally serving on the committee will be Sir John Caines, a retired Whitehall permanent secretary, and Keith Woodley, deputy chairman of the Abbey National and a prominent accountant.