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According to the latest HMRC data, Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) receipts stood at £61 million in March 2025, bringing the full year total for the 2024/25 financial year to a record £8.88 billion, ...

In this video, Swiss Re Group Chief Economist Jerome Jean Haegeli walks us through the macroeconomic landscape and the different factors impacting the insurance industry, while Swiss Re Corporate ...

1. Background. The Chancellor has launched a landmark pensions review to boost investment, increase saver returns and tackle waste in the pensions system. The Chancellor has appointed the Minister for ...

This month has seen two of the regulatory bodies being particularly active with TPR publishing their first Annual Funding Statement under the new funding code, the FCA concluded their policy sprint, ...

I believe there are four key issues that HMRC need to address in their proposals on how to apply inheritance tax (IHT) to pension benefits. The chan ...

When I first became an actuary, the tools of the trade were relatively simple, and almost exclusively Excel. I think those outside of the actuarial pr ...

Martin Bühler, Swiss Re’s Head of Large Loss, discusses the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires — examining why they spread so quickly and caused such widespre ...

Auto-enrolment (AE) has been a huge success in getting the employed saving for later life, but the level and breadth of saving is not enough. There is ...

Auto-enrolment (AE) has been a huge success in getting the employed saving for later life, but the level and breadth of saving is not enough. There is ...

focuses on the narrowing of the income gap between male and female pensioners, which has fallen from over £1,450 per year to around £730 per year (aft ...

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) first launched its consultation on code in 2021. Please join us in conversation – with TPR’s Nick Gannon – on the next steps to apply the Regulator’s forthcoming new Code ...