Monthly Archives: April 2016
Help for the forgotten – the Abbey Life IGC
25 years ago Abbey Life was as much a name as Allied Dunbar. You couldn’t turn on the TV without a happy go lucky Australian singing to you from some distant day in the future that “the man who said … Continue reading
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“We’ve never had it that good”- what Tata Steel could do to pensions.
The world has woken up to the £486m deficit in the Tata (aka Corus, aka British Steel) Pension deficit and what John Ralfe estimates is a £2bn albatross around Tata’s neck (the predicted cost of walking away with the Government’s … Continue reading
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Tagged DB, Deficit, defined benefit, Inequality, Intergenerational transfers, pension playpen, pensions, ppf, Tata steel
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Scottish Widows IGC – papering over the cracks
Scottish Widows IGC Chairman’s report is out and if you are a member of a Scottish Widows workplace pension you shouldn’t feel comforted by the words of its Chair Babloo Ramamurthy Although the IGC has carefully scrutinised the various elements of … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, Financial services, Government, IGC, Lloyds Banking Group, pensions, Retirement, Scottish Widows, workplace pension
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Corporate codswallop from Aviva’s IGC
Aviva’s IGC chair’s statement,signed off by Chair Inder Dhingra is very much a corporate effort. It reminds me of a tourist brochure sanctioned by the North Korean Government in which tourists respectfully thank their hosts for the fascinating insight … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviva, Business, Financial services, IGC, Inder dhingra, pension, pensions, Retirement
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Phoenix and its heroic IGC
Not a job for the boys Of all the duff jobs out there, being Chair of the Phoenix IGC must rank high in the pantheon. Phoenix is a shell company that over the years has acquired a number of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Chair, Costs and charges, David Hare, governance, IGC, Investment, pensions, Phoneix, Transparency, workplace Pensions
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