Blog posts tagged with: economics

UK Government Finances: The Big Picture an Actuary Would Want to See

by Patrick Lee on 16 Mar 2026 in categories actuarial pensions with tags AI economics productivity

An actuarial lens on the UK's Whole of Government Accounts 2023-24: £5 trillion of liabilities, £1.3 trillion of unfunded pensions, and a balance sheet with less margin than ever. Revenue, expenditure, the pension iceberg, PFI, migration, and what it all looks like scaled to a household earning £50,000.

I Used AI to Compare Pension Disclosures Across 4 FTSE Companies. Here's What I Found.

by Patrick Lee on 03 Mar 2026 in categories actuarial pensions with tags AI economics productivity

Four FTSE companies, 20+ data points each, one hour. AI-extracted IAS 19 pension disclosures from BT Group, BAE Systems, Tesco and BP — compared side by side.

White collar workers: it has never been more important to increase your productivity by a multiple!

by Patrick Lee on 28 Feb 2026 in categories actuarial tech with tags AI economics productivity

AI is coming for most white-collar jobs. Blue-collar too, but it will take longer because of the delay before hundreds of millions of robots can be manufactured. So it is now vital for you to use AI to increase your productivity by a multiple.