The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) is an independent actuarial consultancy working within government. We provide actuarial advice to a wide range of public sector and private sector organisations, throughout the UK and internationally.
Although constituted as a government department, we operate as a consultancy firm within the public sector, offering independent actuarial advice to our clients and charging fees for our services. We are a non-profit organisation, so our fee rates are set solely to meet our costs.
Our objective
- To provide our clients with independent, professional actuarial advice of the highest quality.
Why you should use GAD
- Our high quality advice, which is tailored to our clients’ particular circumstances.
- Our unrivalled experience: we have been advising some of the UK’s largest pension schemes for decades.
- Our people: we have a dedicated, experienced team of actuaries and other consultants.
- Our independence and objectivity.
- Our focus on meeting our clients’ needs rather than maximising profits: our prices are highly competitive and contain no profit loading.
An in-house source of actuarial advice for the public sector provides:
- An objective source of advice, free from conflicting commercial interests.
- Confidentiality on sensitive political and commercial issues.
- Consistency of advice across the public sector.
- Expertise at handling political and policy issues.
- Value for money.
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