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Summer Students' Experience: Spreadsheets and the City
Looking back on our eight weeks in Barnett Waddingham’s Insurance Actuarial practice, we recall fondly the unique learning experiences of the summer programme.
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Bulk annuity market goes from strength to strength in 2013
Bulk annuity transactions worth almost £1.7bn were completed by UK insurers in the first half of 2013, setting the market on course for its most successful year sin…
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Young people who delay pension saving until middle age could lose more than half a million pounds
Young people who put off saving for a pension until they reach middle age could lose up to £100,000 in employer pension contributions and tax relief.
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Takaful - an introduction
Issues surrounding Islamic Finance and in particular Sharia-compliant investment have recently penetrated the public consciousness through the adve...
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Current Irish Issues in the GI Market session (26 June 2013)
A session was held at the end of June 2013 at the Institute of Actuaries which gave an update on the latest developments within the Irish general i...
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PPF replaces Dun & Bradstreet with Experian
The PPF has announced that it will be replacing Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) as the provider it uses for determining the probability of company insolvency used in the PPF…
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Summer students - What I wish I knew before starting work
Now halfway through their summer placements Chris, Omair, and Sophie have all settled in to working life. Here they tell us about a few things they wish they'd know…
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Updated Perspectives on the Bulk Annuity Market
Last summer we wrote about prominent developments within the bulk annuity market . PIC received a capital investment of £400m, allowing it to furth...
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PPF takes on UK Coal
It was announced that the defined benefit pension scheme of UK Coal plc will move into the PPF as part of a wider restructuring under the terms of the group’s admin…
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Motor Insurers and the Gender Directive (Part 3 of our Gender Directive Series)
According to research carried out by Barnett Waddingham, motor insurance premiums have gone up despite your gender! Many thought that men would ben...