Monthly Archives: September 2020
Sam Marsh’s response to TPR’s DB Funding Code
Sam Marsh is a lecturer and branch president of the Sheffield UCU. He has responded on his own behalf to TPR’s consultation. Continue reading
Posted in age wage, pensions, USS
Tagged Consultation, DB Funding Code, pensions, Sam Marsh, TPR, UCU, USS
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Ros Altmann’s response to TPR’s DB funding code consultation.
I have asked for responses to the Pension Regulator’s consultation questions and Ros Altmann has obliged. As a member of the House of Lords and former Pension Minister, I hope Ros’ replies will be of particular interest Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Consultation, DB Funding Code, final salary, pension, pensions, Ros Altman, TPR
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They don’t do plagues like they used to
“Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. Hobbes described the natural state of mankind in Leviathan and we would do well to remember that we never had a plague so good. Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Cockpit, Covid-19, Defoe, Diary of a Plague Year, Ireland Yard
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How has the pandemic affected your retirement plans?
AgeWage is partnering with Retire Easy in this survey of people’s retirement planning and how plans may have changed as a result of COVID-19. We’d be very grateful if you could fill out this little survey which gives … Continue reading
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A call for DB consultation responses
If you wish your response to the consultation to be in the public domain and part of the ongoing debate following today’s closure, please send me it in word to henry@agewage.com Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator
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The abuse of “platforms”; the distribution of pension scams abroad
Platforms can also be turned against the consumer, offer advisers huge commissions and legitimize the products of the morally bankrupt who set out to steal people’s money through scams. Continue reading
Jon Spain’s submission on DB Funding
Although people have been living far longer than used to be the case, the financial assumptions are generally far more significant than the demographic assumptions.
If, as appears to be the case, we can’t get simple things right, why should we think we can tackle complex stuff successfully? Continue reading
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Tagged DB Funding Code, DWP, Jon Spain, Submission, TPR
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BONFIRE. Keating and Clacher conclude their articles on the DB funding code
We began this series of blogs and articles with a call for a bonfire of regulation; at the very least we should start with this proposed Funding Code. Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged Con Keating, DB, defined benefit, Iain Clacher, music, pensions, TPR
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