Policy
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The Great Risk Transfer – one year on
In a blog published in April we described the tremendous practical potential of some of the recommendations from our Great Risk Transfer (GRT) campaign, imagining a future financial landscape in which they had been implemented and were helping individuals to manage their risks in pensions and insurance.
The Queen’s Speech 2022 – What’s In and What’s Out?
The IFoA's Policy and Public Affairs Assistant, Matthew Humphreys, breaks down the UK Government's legislative agenda following the Queen's Speech 2022.
The IFoA tackles the big issues at party conferences
Our public affairs team was in full swing at the 2022 party conferences, first in Liverpool for Labour, then in Birmingham for the Conservatives. At both, they were proud to host fringe events that gave focus to some of the most pressing issues of our time. Here the team reports back, offering some insight into the rich panel discussions.
IFoA success at party conference season 2023
Our Policy and Public Affairs Team reports back from the 2023 party conferences, an opportunity to bring the actuarial profession ‘to life’ to political stakeholders.
For the actuarial eye: Autumn Statement 2023
Our Policy and Public Affairs Team explores the contents of the Autumn Statement 2023 most relevant to the work of actuaries
Actuaries lead pensions debate at 2025 party conferences
Our Policy and Public Affairs Team reports back from the 2025 party conferences, an opportunity to bring the actuarial profession to life to political stakeholders.
Social care funding: time for the UK government to confront the trade-offs
The IFoA Social Care Working Party held a roundtable in April 2026. It brought together policymakers, industry leaders and experts to revisit a now-familiar question: how do we fund adult social care sustainably? This blog summarises the key themes from the discussion.
Five takeaways from COP26 Finance Day
It is not by chance that the first of the COP26 themed days was Finance Day. Central to the perceived success of the UN Climate Change conference was reaching the Paris Agreement target of US$100 billion per year of funding to developing nations to address climate change. But more than that, the UK Presidency declared that to reach our climate goals, “every company, every financial firm, every bank, insurer and investor will need to change.” This will require both public finance for the development of infrastructure and private finance to fund technology and innovation, and to help turn the “billions of public money into trillions of total climate investment”.
IFoA Policy Manager Caroline Winchester was at Finance Day on Wednesday 3 November and here are her five takeaways:
Moving beyond GDP - IFoA gives evidence to Parliamentary Committee
IFoA Council member Nick Spencer gave evidence yesterday on behalf of the IFoA today to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee on their inquiry into how to align the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. The committee considered alternatives to GDP, looking at how including natural and social capital might impact government, private firms, and financial institutions.
Stability and Stasis - Pensions Policy 17 Years Since The Pensions Commission
Ahead of his IFoA Conference 2022 plenary session, "Challenges ahead for pensions and the welfare state", Paul Johnson CBE, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, gives a brief overview of how far pension reform has come since the Pension Commission of the mid-2000s.