Monthly Archives: September 2016
Transsubstantiation – more from Con Keating on DB funding!
Con Keating has produced a remarkable blog on the issues around DB funding –Anthony Hilton’s original piece continues to make waves it has received more comment – this is Con’s response. If you cannot access Dan Mikulskis’ comments via the link, they … Continue reading
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Is Yahoo insured?
As I listened to the accounts of Yahoo’s 500m users being hacked (purportedly by a foreign government), four questions came to mind Why hasn’t the Yahoo share price fallen more than a couple of percent? Did Verizen, it’s prospective purchaser … Continue reading
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Tagged cyber-crime, Government, Insurance, Lloyds, pension playpen, protection, Reserves, yahoo
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Oblate spheroids and complete balls- guest blog from Con Keating.
Some would call it a storm in a tea-cup, some the great pension debate of our time. This morning I am publishing Anthony Hilton’s tirade against actuarial valuation methods, Dawid Konotey-Ahulu’s refutation and by way of synthesis, this article by … Continue reading
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“MaybeThe Earth isn’t flat-perhaps it’s round” – guest blog from Dawid
This is the second of three blogs published this morning that all focus on the same thing, the funding of our Defined Benefit Schemes. It’s written by Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Founder of Redington and Mallowstreet. Anthony Hilton’s original can be found … Continue reading
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Our mad approach to pension fund deficits – guest post by Anthony Hilton
This post appeared in the Business Section of the Evening Standard and has prompted two responses from Dawid Konotey-Ahulu and Con Keating that are also published this morning. This is designed to be read first but you can read them … Continue reading
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How to deal with senior bankers who go wrong.
This introduction needs no introduction, just watch it!
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Tagged Bnaks, Elizabeth Warren, Fake accounts, Improper behaviour, pension, Wells Fargo
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Too Expensive to Keep? Is it time to break our promises to the baby boomers?
In a stunning lecture delivered without notes to a “senior” audience at the Oxford and Cambridge Club last night, Paul Johnson helped us ask these questions of ourselves. For his audience was by and large – precisely the entitled class … Continue reading
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Tagged baby boomers, Business, demographics, Economics, Employment, Financial services, Paul Johnson, pensions, Retirement, SERPS, Social economics, state pension
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My pension fund manager – reassuringly boring.
I’ve worked out what I want from the person who runs my pension fund – I want them to be busy doing nothing. That’s more or less what Martin Dietz is doing running the Legal and General Multi-Asset Fund which … Continue reading
Retiring using other people’s money
Thanks to Jo Cumbo for putting me on to this excellent debate on “property v pension”. You can listen to it here; http://bbc.in/2cyqQgP The crux of the argument is about borrowing. People do not borrow other people’s money to invest in … Continue reading
Documenting why you chose your workplace pension
The best thing about the Pensions Regulator’s Duties Checker is the process. Follow the five steps and you will be able to sign your declaration of compliance and that’s it- auto-enrolment sorted. Well if only it was that … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, choose, Document, pension, pension playpen
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