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Mark Carney is putting the right ideas into practice
As the keynote speaker at the IFoA’s General Insurance Conference (GIRO), Mark Carney addressed the importance of insurance to the new focus of the Bank of England.
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Softer approach to accounting for surplus under IFRIC 14
IFRIC 14 amendment will clarify the treatment of pension schemes where there is a surplus on the IAS 19 accounting basis but no future accrual of benefits.
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Compromise on EU pensions directive grants boon for cross-border schemes
Revised Directive may permit cross-border schemes to use recovery plans – but is this too little, too late?
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What is the most important mortality assumption?
It is very important for an insurer to understand its portfolios of business and the assumptions underlying them.
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NO vote – but a call for change
Pension schemes should not rest easy as Scots vote No to independence, changes still lie ahead
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Volatility Adjustment users to require pre-approval in the UK?
The Volatility Adjustment is one of the options available under the long-term guarantees package, introduced under Omnibus II, and allows a prescribed adjustment to…
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Biases at Play
Our preceding blogs talked about BE. Our final blog talks about some less obvious ways insurers may already be taking advantage of some of these biases.
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Matching Adjustment
Following PRA dry run submission, and in anticipation of the application window opening next year, insurers with annuity books are focussing their attention on the …
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Assessment of mental health risks within the workplace
Following the publication today of Dame Sally Davies’ annual report into mental health which shows mental illness leads to the loss of 70 million working days in th…
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Summer student blog
Three interns – Susanna, Adam, and Andrew – recently completed an eight week internship with us. We hope their thoughts on the experience will provide a useful res…