We will be heard on relevant matters and promote actuarial science and the value it brings to business and society.
PPAB plays a crucial governance role by:
Strategy
- to support the strategic development of the IFoA’s public affairs and policy agenda.
- to assess activity against the IFoA’s public affairs strategy and provide direction accordingly.
Planning and oversight
- to approve an annual public affairs and policy plan and monitor progress
- to have oversight of the IFoA’s public affairs and policy outputs, including, but not limited to:
- media releases
- communications to key stakeholders
- consultation responses
- policy briefings and position statements.
Support
- to support the development of an evidence-based approach
- to support the delivery of an integrated public affairs programme by representing the IFoA with key partner stakeholder groups.
Governance
- for those PPAB members representing the key policy priorities they will be recruited through the volunteer vacancy process and their tenure will be in line with the Governance Manual.
Membership of the PPAB
Executive Support: Public Affairs Executive
The Board shall comprise no fewer than nine and no greater than twelve members:
- Chair
- The Presidential team (President, Immediate Past President and President-elect)
- Chair of Regulation Board
- At least two and no more than five additional members (of which up to two may be lay members)
- IFoA Director of Public Affairs and Research
- IFoA CEO
Members are as follows:
- Jules Constantinou, Immediate Past President
- John Taylor, President
- Tan Suee Chieh, President Elect
- Rt. Hon David Heath (Chair)
- Stephen Mann
- Annette Spencer
- Neil Buckly, Chair of Regulation Board
- Kartina Thomson
- Hilary Salt
- Charles Cowling
All vacancies arising on Boards and their sub committees are advertised on our volunteer vacancies web page. Further information for volunteers, including tips on how to chair a meeting, can be found in the Volunteer Information Pack.
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Pensions Winter Forum: Corporate Transactions
25 January 2022
Over recent months there has been a sharp rise in M&A activity involving British businesses, with interest from overseas, domestic buyers and Private Equity investors. -
Frank Redington is recognised as one of the most influential actuaries of all time. In this talk, Craig will review some of Redington's most important ideas. He will identify the consistent actuarial principles that form a common thread across the contributions Redington made to a broad range of actuarial fields, and will highlight the ongoing relevance of Redington's thinking to 21st century actuarial practice.
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The IFoA Mental Health working party look back over their week of blogs and podcasts considering all aspects of the relationship between mental health and life insurance. The expert panel spans adviser, underwriter and actuarial experience and they explore triggers for purchasing insurance relating to mental health, the various routes to insurance and how these may be more suited to different people depending on their conditions and preferences, the products and processes involved in purchasing these as well as what claims and support are available to policyholders and how to access them.
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Part of the 'Finance in the Public Interest 2022' webinar series. If it was ever okay to consider your business in isolation from its surroundings, today it most definitely is not. Thinking about business within its surrounding system is now a necessity. The question we seek to discuss is: How should we prescribe the boundaries in which we consider problems to enable us to create better products and more resilient companies and systems?
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ARC Webinar - The next generation of CDC pensions? Analysing a post-retirement retirement vehicle
18 February 2022What will happen to DC pension savers who see life annuities as poor VFM but still want an income for life? Pooled annuity funds could offer them a decent lifetime income while reducing significantly the complex choices and risk inherent in income drawdown. They could be the next generation of CDC pension schemes, slotting into the existing DC framework as a post-retirement option.
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ARC Webinar Series 2022 - Lifting the lid on intergenerational investment risk-sharing
24 February 2022Investment risk-sharing is a fundamental part of whole-life collective defined contribution (CDC) pension schemes, such as the Royal Mail CDC. But how does investment risk-sharing benefit members? And does it favour some groups of members over others?
Over recent months there has been a sharp rise in M&A activity involving British businesses, with interest from overseas, domestic buyers and Private Equity investors.