Category Archives: First Actuarial

The Regulator’s brilliant auto-enrolment website.

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

It is an example to other Government functions on how to engage with its audience. Continue reading →

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Those Dutch Pensions – a Civil Servant writes

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

I get some feedback on my blogs from people I know who don’t want to or aren’t allowed to go public. Here’s an example from a formidable figure and a personal friend (who I know/hope has the skin or a rhino … Continue reading →

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A method to chose your workplace pension scheme.

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

I’d value your feedback on a scoring system we are developing which aims to provide employers with a method of rating one pension proposition against another. We want it used by employers looking to establish a new workplace scheme, and those who … Continue reading →

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Working for the clampdown?

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

“what are we going to do now?” Joe Strummer asked in 1979. Are we still working for the Clampdown? Continue reading →

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Chimp or chump? Fund Managers: Really, Really Bad at What They Do

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

For some years, First Actuarial have been running a “Monkey League” which pits the wits of 150 top brains against 1000 monkeys; the task, to pick two teams to do well and two to do badly in each of the four football … Continue reading →

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Taxpayer subsidy for public service pensions to double over 6 years

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

This is an article from Michael Johnson. I agree with the numbers but I’m not so sure about the sentiment that lies behind it. As a nation we can afford anything if we chose to prioritise the spending and we … Continue reading →

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Better-buying makes auto-enrolment work

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

The promise of “Wealth at work” has disguised the paucity of the pension outcomes when work finishes. Continue reading →

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When pensions de-mutualise

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

When you take the mutuality out of pensions , you take good pensions out of mutuals. Continue reading →

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Cobblers shoes – how an adviser selects a pension for its staff

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

If we can find a pension provider that knows what “good” is, I will be pleased. But I worry whether that may be as much a challenge for us. Continue reading →

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