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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…
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An intern’s take on the future of the actuarial profession
If you wanted to join the actuarial profession 50 years ago, the primary criteria that you would have been required to meet would have been strong analytical and ma…
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UK motor insurance market – cause for celebration?
It was the news that the UK motor insurance industry had long awaited; the achievement of its first underwriting profit in 20 years. In 2013, a combined operating r…
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Interest rates – increases on the horizon
It is sensible to consider the Bank of England’s own comments in relation to this, which are that when they do start to raise rates it will do so only gradually and…
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FRC proposes amendments to FRS102 to address confusion
Exposure draft confirms schedule of contributions will not need to be recognised as additional liability under accounting standard FRS102