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Covid-19: impact on the reinsurance market
Insurers are projecting a substantial proportion of Covid-19 related claims to be recovered from their reinsurers, with corresponding impacts on the reinsurance mar…
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Covid-19: year-end 2020 valuation considerations for insurers
The impact of Covid-19 on experience in 2021 and beyond remains an area of huge uncertainty. So actuaries must challenge their approach to setting assumptions and h…
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Proof of burden: rising costs for advisers
What is the biggest burden that advisers are currently facing? During our workshop at ‘the recent Money Marketing Interactive we conducted a number of adviser polls…
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Employee wellbeing in a shaken population
We revisit the findings from our employee survey to understand their situations, how they are feeling and coping and how well they feel supported by their employer.
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Corporate transactions: the DB pensions endgame springboard
Recently we have seen the announcement of two takeover transactions involving significant DB pension schemes. The outcomes in these cases illustrate the range of wa…
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Covid-19: the impact on reinsurance reserving
Reinsurance is key in Covid-19 reserving as insurers are currently projecting a substantial proportion of Covid-19 related claims to be recovered from their reinsur…
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Will the last pension transfer specialist please turn out the lights?
A cocktail of challenges and regulatory changes have reduced the number of advisers who are both willing and financially able to carry on providing DB pension trans…
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HMRC Final Data Cuts – Last chance to get it right
At the time of writing this blog, we have received final data cuts from HMRC for the majority of our schemes. From the start, we have sought to work with HMRC in th…
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Climate Change: disclosures by UK life insurers
UK insurers are required to have embedded climate change related risks by 31 December 2021 and meet TCFD requirements by 2025. Our experience suggests that firms ar…
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Local government exit payments: cap in hand?
There a serious inconsistency between the exit cap regulations that employers have to adhere to and the LGPS regulations that bind administering authorities and emp…