Tag Archives: Basic State Pension

This is no country for old women


I haven’t been a great fan of academic pensions research or researchers for that matter. The research is typically a big whinge about people not getting a fair deal, the researchers comfortably cocooned in university sponsored sinecures or pensions. So I … Continue reading

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Pension Corporation points the way to “ambitious pensions”


A timely report arrived yesterday from the Pension Corporation estimating that the cost of replacing a standard DB benefit structure using DC had risen to 55% of salary. PIC’s business model is based on managing out DB plans on a … Continue reading

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Happiness and harm


Time will tell whether the Coalition Government has created a credible and sustainable system which allows us to measure and understand “government finances and the structure of the State”.

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What has happened to our pensions?


Never before in the field of UK pensions has so much been done so quickly for so many. Continue reading

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