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Solvency II: longevity risk and spurious parameters
For a recent survey, Barnett Waddingham gathered information on Solvency II capital requirements for longevity from eight internal model firms and we found signif...
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Investments: back to basics for insurers
The ‘lower for longer’ yield environment that is the expected outcome of Brexit has caused many insurers to go back to basics and consider how to achieve positive...
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Solvency II optimisation: an introduction
At the beginning of the summer we held a seminar on Solvency II, highlighting a number of ‘top priority’ areas for 2016.
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Five reasons why the Government was right to abandon the secondary annuity market...and one reason to be disappointed!
The Government has announced that, after eighteen months in consultation and preparation, the planned launch of a secondary annuity market in 2017 is not now goin...
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Understanding risk: our summer project with the University of Liverpool
We joined forces with students from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (IFAM) to undertake a research project to under...
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Unquoted damage
In his latest blog Andy Leggett takes a look at one of the most-talked-about changes to the SIPP industry for many years which took effect on 1 September – the ch...
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Review: PPF propose changes to the levy rules
The PPF is proposing a transitional adjustment where companies would otherwise see an increase in their levy solely as a result of the move to the FRS102 accounti...