Climate change has been identified as the century's most important health threat. GAD explores why cross-sector collaboration is essential to protect communities and build resilience in a warming climate.
Discover how actuary Becky Wodcke and a cross-government team updated the AQuA Book - essential guidance for quality analysis across departments. Learn about collaborative writing, new tools like GitHub, and tips for clear communication.
GAD actuary Will Stobbs was at the forefront of a team that set up and ran a recent major climate conference. The event attracted notable speakers and exhibitors from across government, the public sector and academia.
Robust quality assurance (QA) processes are a crucial tool for administrators to help mitigate calculation and administrative error. This blog explores what QA is, the benefits to schemes in undertaking QA activity and some strategies schemes could implement to improve QA in their schemes.
A robust data strategy is crucial for pension schemes in the digital age. Effective strategies enhance efficiency, member experience, and compliance. Learn how to avoid pitfalls such as data silos and poor quality, and embrace innovations like pensions dashboards, to unlock your data's full potential.
As the effects of climate change become more obvious, there is a growing urgency to understand climate-related risks and how they might evolve. Here we look at the uncertainties associated with future climate change; from the emissions pathways we might take to how climate processes are modelled.
We work with Bayes Business School, which celebrates 50 years of actuarial teaching and research. Professor Kyriakou blogs about our successful collaboration.
In this blog, we look at the long legal journey the government undertook, with GAD in a supporting role, considering the legal fall out on the costs of the McCloud judgment.
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) organisation marks 10 years of providing rapid prearranged finance following extreme weather events and GAD works with ARC and others. In this blog we look at the use of parametric insurance to deliver support to the most vulnerable areas of the world.
The main public sector employers now contribute more than £50 billion annually to support employee retirement benefits. This begins to shows how significant pensions are in the remuneration of approximately 6 million UK public servants. In this blog we consider how this can be communicated effectively.