Monthly Archives: May 2020
What’s happening in intensive care?
Nicola Oliver analyses the latest ICNARC report which tells us what is happening to patients in England and Wales in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). These numbers relate to hospital admissions and don’t cover those being treated in care homes … Continue reading
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“If we should live that long…”
I write a column for the CIPP magazine and there’s generally a six week cycle between submission and publication. I submitted this article in March and it got published last week. When I wrote it, I wondered how I’d be … Continue reading
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Tagged CIPP, Covid-19, Payroll, pensions
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Will COVID promote ESG or destroy it?
This time last year I was talking with BNY Mellon about using AgeWage as an ESG platform to help investors vote their shares. It’s not we decided to do (though there is one Fintech that’s taken up the challenge). The … Continue reading
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Tagged BNY Mellon, ESG, Lottie Meggitt, Shared value, sustainability
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Club Vita’s latest picture of the Covid-19 data.
Club Vita is an actuarial resource that helps pension schemes understand what’s going on death and health wise. It uses big data sets to create pictures which non-actuaries like me can understand. If , like me, you want to understand … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Club Vita, Covid-19, Hymans Robertson, PPE
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COVID-19 Actuaries; (6th weekly report)
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID19 Actuaries Response Group read more about the outbreak than most, so we’ve decided each Friday to provide you with a curated list of … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Friday Report, Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver
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“Financial resilience” – austerity’s twin brother
In the aftermath of the collapse of Northern Rock in 2008, many savings institutions were hit with a run on deposits from savers keen to put their cash under the mattress. Mark Scantlebury and Vincent Franklin, who were then setting … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Covid-19, financial reslience, Government, pensions
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Why we’ve failed to build a national care service
Sage seem to consider the major problem in care homes the impact it is having on the R number. At least that is how it is being reported. Sage member Professor John Edmunds told the FT Covid-19 infections in hospitals … Continue reading
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Tagged CARE, Care Homes, Covid-19, long term care, NHS, Social care
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COVID-19 ; Vaccines and Antivirals
What is a vaccine? Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop protection from a disease which is achieved by essentially imitating an infection. Vaccines have historically been constructed to contain either inactivated viruses … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiviral, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Nicola Oliver, Vaccine
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ScamMan Robbin’ more than 1000 players
Scam Man & Robbin’, the new online game that aims to tackle the rapid increase in pension scams, has been played over 1,000 times since its launch last week. Created by four of the UK’s leading digital pension platforms – … Continue reading
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Do death numbers matter?
The other “we” not only live in more densely housed areas with higher BAME populations, but they have care homes a plenty – which are the main source of death. Continue reading
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