GAD engages at GIRO
GAD actuary Tejas Dholakia shares his experiences of participating in GIRO - a major actuarial conference on general insurance.
Looking ahead in public service pensions administration
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Taylor Brightwell-Smith - Senior Pensions Consultant, Posted on:
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Finance, Investment, Pensions
McCloud, pensions dashboards and beyond! The administrators of public service pension schemes have a lot to deliver over the next few years. This blog looks at the challenges they face, as well as sharing thoughts on potential opportunities.
Start Ready - a GAD actuary takes part in a disaster risk financing initiative
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Andy Jinks - Chief Actuary, Posted on:
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Actuary, Climate change, Finance, Modelling, Risk management
A GAD actuary has marked 6 months at the centre of a programme providing financial help to countries affected by natural disasters. Read more about his role in the Start Ready initiative, part of the Start Network charity, and how it takes an innovative approach to helping countries affected by predictable crises.
Liability Driven Investments
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Christophor Ward - Investment Lead, Posted on:
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Actuary, Analysis, Finance, Investment
Liability Driven Investment, or LDI, is a way of investing that by convention gives a multiple exposure to gilts. Recently it's been a challenging time for corporate defined benefit pension schemes that had LDI. Read our blog to find out more.
Handling large datasets
At the Government Actuary's Department, we deal with a huge volume of data every day. Handling large datasets brings both opportunities and challenges. Learn more about our experiences in this blog.
Bank of England Bank Rate
We explore the importance of the Bank Rate, or base rate, as a tool for the Bank of England to control inflation. This base rate is just part of the Bank of England's role in maintaining monetary stability and overseeing the UK's financial functions.
Disaster risk finance
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Joanne Meusz - Actuary, Posted on:
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Actuary, Climate change, Finance, Risk management
The ways in which actuarial skills can contribute to the complex area of disaster risk finance, is explored in this blog. GAD actuary Joanne Meusz talks about her role in a multi disciplinary team which developed disaster risk finance initiatives.
How to ace your GAD job application!
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Shamailla Rashid - Head of HR Operations, Posted on:
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Categories:
Actuary, Analysis, Careers
Tips and reflections from the HR team about how to succeed in a job interview at GAD. Read on for more information about nuggets of knowledge and interview techniques.
Data and dashboards
We look at how GAD is supporting the work of the government’s National Situation Centre. Actuarial skills provide timely data, projections and analysis so that the most informed decisions are taken in a crisis.
Inflation, it's personal
In this blog we look at issues around the rising cost of living and examine the background to our current period of high inflation of prices for goods and services.
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