Monthly Archives: May 2020
Saving up, spending down – are our finances having a good war?
There is of course no such thing as a good war and there’s no good pandemic either. But personal finances for the mass affluent appear to be improving through lockdown, at least that’s what data coming out of Pension Bee … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Pension Bee, pensions, war
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Is the UK institutionally ageist?
This week we hear that numbers in England and Wales dying in care homes is exceeding those in hospital. In March Government told these homes the risk of death in homes was “most unlikely”. How did it come to this? … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage, later life, pensions, Ros Altmann
Tagged Care Homes, Covid-19, Debora Price, LSE, Nursing, ONS, Ros Altmann, Stuart McDonald
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Tackling COVID-19 through electronic health records
As we in England change our mantra from “Stay at Home” to the more nuanced “Stay Alert” and the possibility of increasing numbers of socially distanced contacts, it is vital to understand the range of data sources that the UK … Continue reading
“The way we were” – DWP AE Evaluation
In normal times, the publication of a major Government review of auto-enrolment would be newsworthy. Apart from a series of mentions by Jo Cumbo, I have seen no publicity for it – from the DWP or their press office or … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, DWP, pensions, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Would CDC have helped your pension?
This is a blog by three bright consultants from Willis Towers Watson. I’ve been rude about WTW over the years but (as the picture shows) , there’s some sunshine after the rain. Thanks to my old buddy Anne “Freemers” … Continue reading
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Eu-clidding us? Mathematical BS from BJ
Boris Johnson is a classicist, but he’s not a mathematician. When Boris’ spin doctors decided to formulate the Covid-19 risk rate – this is what they came up with. To the delight of genuine mathematicians who were able to display … Continue reading
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Tagged Euclid, Euclid of Alexandra, Euclid of megara, Imperfect Scoratic, NHS
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Wishing the Payroll Bureau Association well!
In March 2020, a group of 14 UK payroll bureau managers came together with two things in common; a passion for their sector and a desire to change the support structure in which they operated. After many phone calls, virtual … Continue reading
Powers during wartime- tPR and funding.
Jo Cumbo has written a fine piece in the FT’s Pension Expert . She is sympathetic to the Pension Regulator’s current dilemma and supportive of its position over deficit holidays. To be exact, Jo is supporting the balanced position … Continue reading
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Pension Scamming – Justin Cash and I talk frankly
I’m found here talking to Money Marketing’s Justin Cash about pension scamming and financial resilience. It was a good day to speak as we’d just launched our anti-scam game http://www.scam-man.com. Doing a podcast by Zoom (I think it was … Continue reading
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Tagged justin cash, money marketing, pension scammers, podcast
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