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Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Public sector organisations are reminded to ensure accounts will be IFRS 17 compliant when accounting for insurance contracts, from this financial yea...
Thursday, 28 March 2024
A new report on climate risk, co-authored by a GAD actuary, is based on the latest climate research. It was a collaboration between actuaries and scie...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Actuarial valuations for public service pension schemes are now published, most of which set employer contribution rates and assess the cost control ...
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
The importance of managing risks around net zero, and areas where GAD can help the public sector with plans for net zero projects, were explored at a ...
Monday, 25 March 2024
GAD has built a pension benefit modeller to support the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as it undertakes a pension reform programme....
Wednesday, 06 March 2024
We peer reviewed a draft report on a new methodology for estimating excess deaths. The ONS publication compared old and new methodologies....
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
GAD has expanded its pensions administration consultancy team which provides support to pension scheme clients on strategic administration related pro...
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
GAD is working with an AI partner to investigate fine tuning a large language model to perform quality assurance checks on pension administrator calcu...
Monday, 29 January 2024
GAD marks a decade since we helped set up an alternative to commercial insurance for schools. The Risk Protection Arrangement now covers over 10,000 s...
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
GAD’s annual report on the National Insurance Fund projects contribution income up to the end of the 2028 to 2029 financial year....
Tuesday, 09 January 2024
GAD has devised a modeller to support clients as they seek to equalise pensions for scheme members. It provides bespoke solutions according to clients...
Friday, 22 December 2023
GAD Senior Consulting Actuary, Chris Morley, addressed the conference on the importance of illustrating risk to assess the sustainability of social pr...
Friday, 15 December 2023
We support government to meet its accounting requirements. In this Special Feature we consider the importance of accounting for public service pension...
Friday, 08 December 2023
GAD supported Ofgem through a reasonableness review of pension scheme costs of the gas and electricity network operators’ defined benefit pension sche...
Friday, 24 November 2023
GAD analyses announcements in the Autumn Statement, as they relate to areas where we specialise. We look at pension reform proposals, and other measur...
Thursday, 16 November 2023
GAD has published its Annual Report and Accounts for the 2022 to 2023 financial year. The report sets out the main projects and successes of the year....
Friday, 10 November 2023
The Personal Injury Discount Rate in the Isle of Man has been updated, using advice provided by GAD. It relates to sums awarded to seriously injured c...
Wednesday, 01 November 2023
GAD has included climate change scenario analysis in public service pension scheme (PSPS) valuations to illustrate potential implications for schemes....
Friday, 27 October 2023
GAD has attended a major pensions summit in London. The event, included organisations from the UK and internationally and was addressed by the Chancel...
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in UK actuarial work is growing in importance. The conclusions come from GAD research....
Friday, 13 October 2023
GAD actuaries spoke at a public service pensions conference in Northern Ireland. They talked about core pensions work and key projects, all part of th...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
GAD has held a webinar for public sector specialists on the complex accounting standard IFRS 17. We were involved in the development of the IFRS 17 a...
Monday, 09 October 2023
Clients and stakeholders have discussed the benefits of GAD’s analysis and actuarial insights on their projects at a key networking event....
Monday, 25 September 2023
The innovation of GAD's Remedy Benefits Illustrator was on show at a cross-departmental event. The online tool provides benefits insights for public ...
Friday, 15 September 2023
Martin Clarke, the retiring Government Actuary, reflects on the potential, drive and skills of the Government Actuary's Department and his 9-year ten...
Monday, 11 September 2023
The Government Actuary has completed a consultation on public service pensions Directions which set out how 2020 valuations should be carried out....
Friday, 01 September 2023
GAD experts will be at the 50th annual conference for general insurance actuaries. GIRO topics will include disaster risk finance, AI and trends in mo...
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
GAD has updated actuarial factors for key public service pension schemes. Actuarial factors are used to calculate the benefits of scheme members unde...
Friday, 04 August 2023
GAD has been nominated in 2 categories in an industry competition....
Wednesday, 02 August 2023
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury has appointed Fiona Dunsire as the new Government Actuary on a 5-year fixed term appointment....
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Central Arbitration Committee How to submit applications and complaints to the CAC
HM Revenue & Customs 65% rise in Self Assessment payments via the HMRC app
Home Office £600,0000 available to support Windrush compensation claimants