Monthly Archives: December 2012
Don’t put your swaptions on the stage Mrs Redington!
This post has been prompted by the very progressive @redingtontweets feed which recently asked it’s excited readership (Well me!) Would you be interested in a lower return on your #DC#pension in exchange for a perpetual floor of 80% of your #asset value? … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, Bankers, pension playpen, pensions, redington, social media
Tagged Bank, Business, Christmas, Investing, pension, Pensions in the United Kingdom, redington, Swaption
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Hands off office Christmas parties (they’re just fine)!
The sad demise of Eamonn Kilbride (46) who collapsed of a heart attack after dancing Gangnam style at his office party should not lead to a ban on middle aged men dancing. Indeed, when he has his conversation with St … Continue reading
Pensions DIY
We know our limits and though we may worry about our jobbing builders, we’d rather blame them when things go wrong than blame ourselves. Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Business, Do it yourself, Father Christmas, Frank Crawford, Home and Garden, Homebase, Incandescent light bulb, Shopping
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“Exclusive” social media is foolish
If ever there was an organisation that has well and truly got social media, it is the Actuarial Post Continue reading
“Purity” in passive investment management
Investing is hard. There are no shortcuts. Markets are generally efficient and when they aren’t there are plenty of people digging up the value ahead of you. My anti – view is that “winning” investment strategies have negative capability. Negative capability is … Continue reading
Pensions Rocked again
Five great bands A full house A proper bunch of judges A fabulous back up team! It’s easy to think Pension Rocks just happens. Last Thursday’s final was so relaxed, well-organised and so darned good that it’s easy to forget what an amazing … Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, Pension Rocks III, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged 100 Club, Autumn Statement, Charles River, George Osborne, mallowstreet, pension, Schroders, Shopping
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Right direction – wrong speed! Defining a “good” workplace pension.
I like the rhetoric, what the DWP and tPR are saying is going in the right direction, I hope they can keep their foot to the floor so that companies and trustees staging next year can get it right first time. Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, Management, napf, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged DWP, Employment, Good governance, Government, O'Higgins, pension, Regulator, Self-invested personal pension
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A chance to keep companies with DB pensions solvent
Income and Corporation taxes tend to dominate the mindsets of the rich, they are meaningless to those who don’t pay them. Unsurprisingly, it is the headline aspects of the Chancellor’s autumn statement that have captured the headlines. This small clause was initially … Continue reading
Government 9 v Pensions 0 (HT 4-0 (Brown 3 NAPf 1(og)) 2nd half Osbourne (5))
Today was billed as the biggest showdown between the pension bigwigs and the Chancellor since Gordon‘s tax raid in 2007. In between meetings I tried to keep up with events from Westminster and it seemed the second half of the … Continue reading