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Court of Appeal judgment: pensions are protected in bankruptcy
A recent Court of Appeal judgment has brought much-needed clarity to the area of pensions and bankruptcy, by upholding a High Court ruling on a case that contradict…
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#StrongerTogether - actuaries and data scientists
'Stronger together' is how I see actuaries and data scientists working together in harmony – it is not about Brexit or America’s presidential campaign!
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With-profits funds could improve their investment strategies
92% of actuaries polled at a session we hosted at the annual Actuarial Life Conference believe that with-profits funds should review their investment strategies in …
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Official UK inflation measure changes to CPIH
A decision by the ONS to replace CPI with CPIH as its preferred measure of inflation could have implications for UK pension schemes. We outline the possible impact…
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Bank of England changes outlook on Super Thursday
Super Thursday not only saw the Bank of England’s latest decision on interest rates and Quantitative Easing, but also their latest inflation report too.
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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 signific…
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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 y…
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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 going …
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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 underst…