Monthly Archives: March 2013
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
Posted in actuaries, annuity, pensions
Tagged annuity, Basic State Pension, Business, dc pensions, Directive (European Union), Employment, Greece, Noel Whiteside, pension, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Royal Statistical Society, social media, Society, UK State Pension, University of Warwick
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DC4Good; ABdc and the Pension Trust get it.
DC just took a little step forward… Here’s AllianceBernstein‘s press release (with the flim-flam deleted and my comments in blue) AllianceBernstein has launched a range of ethical target date funds for the UK DC market. Good news, we all know that … Continue reading
The Budget – Becalmed in the middle of the lost decade!
This wasn’t really a budget about pensions and the usual scare stories about threats to pension saving proved groundless. It certainly didn’t do much for those in retirement. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, Treasury
Tagged April, April 2013, April 2014, April 2015, Business, National Insurance, Small and medium enterprises, Value-added tax
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“We grow old, we grow old” – a budget day blog
It’s budget day. I was asked to be a commentator on a budget briefing this afternoon but I’m not good on economics – more interested in nuts and bolts. All the same, it’s useful sometimes to stick your head up and … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, doctors, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen, pensions, Treasury
Tagged Britain, Budget Day, Economic, Government, Government spending, House of Lords, Piers Plowman, Strike action
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It’s a “no” to that Royal Charter from the Plowman
In case you are wondering, the views of the pension plowman are not necessarily those of First Actuarial and quite often aren’t. Continue reading
Posted in Henry Tapper blog
Tagged Business, David Cameron, Downing Street, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, Publishing, Punitive damages, Royal Charter
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Beeb forces closure of offshore payroll loophole
A good news story all round (except for the man and the goat on Sark). Continue reading
By your clicks shall ye be known – the self-immolation of Gavin Barwell MP
Thanks to the Guardian for this… Conservative MPGavin Barwell thought he was exposing a particularly shameless piece of political moneyspinning when he clicked on a link tweeted by Labour and found a press release accompanied by an advert saying “date … Continue reading
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What to do about commission
Debbie O’ Donovan who blogs as DOD has written a definitive comment on commission and the shameful shenanigans of Q4 2012 which saw advisory firms filling their boots at the expense of the members of workplace pension schemes. Many years ago … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, pensions, Retirement
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Cometh the hour;- the Regulator gets its man
I’m really pleased that they have chosen as their new Executive Director for DC – Andrew Warwick-Thompson Continue reading