Volterra has formed a partnership with Peter Ambrose, Patrick Girling and Andy Fail to create SolvEcon – a company dedicated to solutions to Solvency 2, the new regulations for the insurance industry. 

SolvEcon is a Solvency II specialist consultancy formed by people who have led functions in firms, faced up to the FSA, delivered major programmes and lived with the results. SolvEcon brings experience from other regulatory programmes as well as using physicists and economists to provide a fresh, new perspective.

Bridget appeared on a special version of the Channel 4 programme 'Dispatches' on 21st June to present on the need to cut back on public sector pay. Although the audience did not support her call for a 10 per cent cut in pay for those above mid-point pay, they did suppport the need to close the gap between the money paid out on pensions and that collected, amounting to a £10bn rise in contributions.

Watch the programme here.

.Bridget also appeared on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 19th June. She argued for a Budget which took cuts seriously, not so much to appease markets but rather to allow space for the private sector to grow and to invest. We don't know whether the Chancellor was listening but the Budget seemed to follow her line.