The GI Research and Thought Leadership Committee's main objectives are to ensure relevance and research for the GI community and consider new and emerging research over a continuous time horizon. The work of the committee is split into four workstreams:
- a) Identifying questions for research
- b) Support ongoing research
- c) Promoting outputs of research to GI actuaries and other professionals
- d) Developing IFoA research environment
Membership of the General Insurance Research and Thought Leadership Committee 2021/22
- Adhiraj Maitra (Chair)
- Thomas Day
- Zvi Ebert
- Laura Hobern
- Yuming Mei
- Dimitris Papachristou
- V S Rajeshwarie
- Chris Smerald
- Martin White
- Sonal Shah - Education Actuary
GIRTL operates within a Terms of Reference and supports the IFoA's Council in the delivery of its corporate strategy.
How to join GIRTL
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 (VIP).
Research Groups
GIRTL is supported by research groups as follows:
- Reserving Reporting Group (RRG)
- Pricing Research Group (PRG)
- Capital Research Group (CPR)
Commissioning Research
The committee is seeking comments and assessing interest from members of the GI actuarial community on five areas of research. Initial thinking has been put together on research questions relating to Claims Inflation, Super Trends, Insurance Risk Dependencies, Learning from Others and Public Data (Find Presentation here). After considering the community’s responses, the committee will begin the process of putting together appropriate volunteering teams to carry out what is hoped to be rewarding research work.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on these questions through our email address girtl@actuaries.org.uk. You could of course contact any of us in person. Who would the research be useful for? Are these the right questions? How do these questions link with existing research output? How should we go about answering them and how would you help?
A short survey has been set up to assess your interest levels for volunteering to carry out the research. You would be asked to provide your name, email address and which topic(s) you would be interested in helping. A free text box is available for you to tell us how you may like to participate. Another question relates to any other future-looking topics that would be useful to look into.
In order for the work to go onto the next stages, it would be helpful to have your views and hear of your interest before 31 October 2019. But of course, the committee is always happy to hear from you on all matters relating to GI research at all times, even on these topics after this specific date.
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Pensions Winter Forum: Corporate Transactions
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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.