Losing weights: planned changes to the CMI Model
The CMI is proposing updates to its Mortality Projections Model. Jon Palin shares his view on how, overall this is a positive step for mortality modelling.
April 2025
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Challenges with Effective Price Transparency Analyses
Promoting price transparency in health care is a policy approach with bi-partisan support in Congress and the public at large. This analysis examines the vast troves of price transparency data that payers are required and finds unlikely prices, inconsistencies, and other oddities that pose major challenges for efforts to use it to promote competition and…
What does Solvency UK mean for General Insurance Internal Models?
The UK is reshaping its insurance regulations post-Brexit with Solvency UK. Discover what this means for insurers and market competitiveness.
Setting equity return assumptions for DB pension schemes
A comparison of the ‘gilts plus’ and discounted dividend model approaches to setting equity return assumptions for defined benefit pension schemes.
Why does Equality, Diversity and Inclusion matter to the LGPS?
EDI is essential to the success of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). But why does EDI matter in this space?
Bitcoin: Currency, store of value or pure speculation?
Can bitcoin serve as a global currency, store of value, or does it remain purely speculative? We analyse key monetary properties, investment risks, and institutional adoption.
LGPS accounting March 2025 – key topics to consider
Watch our webinar to understand the key topics to consider for 2025’s LGPS accounting exercise.
We’ve arrived in Manchester
BW is expanding its northern presence with the opening of our new office in Manchester. This move reinforces our commitment to clients in the North West.
Congressional District Interactive Map: How Much Will ACA Premium Payments Rise if Enhanced Subsidies Expire?
This analysis and interactive map illustrate how much more enrollees in Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plans would pay in premiums at the congressional district level if the enhanced subsidies were to expire in 2026 as under current law. The tool presents scenarios for an older couple who would lose subsidy eligibility due to their…