Monthly Archives: November 2020
C-19 actuaries Friday report strikes optimistic notes
Covid-arg.com Friday Report: Issue 28 By Matt Fletcher, Dan Ryan and John Roberts COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. … Continue reading
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Tagged #covid19, COVID 19, Covid-19 action group, pfizer
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Time to put a stop to the pseudo-science of life-styling
For 25 years, “life-styling” has been the accepted wisdom for defined contribution pension schemes in the UK. Pension experts now use the phrase without thought to the confusion of a public for whom lifestyle means something altogether different from the … Continue reading
Saul Jacka on “Regulation, risk and (defined benefit) pensions”
Published with the kind permission of the author.
Respect small pension pots, they simmer our dreams
I was lucky to be invited to listen to Chris Curry yesterday at a DWP convened meeting to think about the issues around small pots. Much of the information discussed was proprietary to the DWP so I can’t share the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, big-fat-pot, consolidation, DWP, Guy Opperman, small pots
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Andrew Bailey – please stick to banking!
Andrew Bailey’s excursions into pension politics A couple of months ago, Andrew Bailey spoke out against Superfunds which he claimed undermined the security of pensions by taking money away from insurers and invested in the market for growth. He argued … Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s 10 point plan for a green industrial revolution
This article first appeared in the Financial Times -17/11/20. To access the links you need to be an FT subscriber. Slowly but surely humanity is taking the upper hand in the fight against the virus. We have not won yet. … Continue reading
Pension Bee floats for £300m – MPs dither over dashboards
Two things caught my eye yesterday evening. The first was a comment made in parliament by Nigel Mills MP on protecting people from themselves and denying them access to digital consolidation via a dashboard. Nanny state The Government … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, consolidation, Financial services, Nigel Mills, penions, Pension Bee
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Pension savers -“What’s the value of your money?”
There’s a lot of argument amongst pension experts about what value for money actually means. Here’s the provisional result of a poll we are doing on Facebook this week We don’t think there should be any argument, the only “value … Continue reading
Could pension freedoms mortgage our future? too?
In her role as global pensions consultant, Jo Cumbo has been looking at early withdrawals from pensions around the world. Having looked closely at Australia, where there is some evidence of increased withdrawals by younger members, the FT looked this … Continue reading
Why the FCA should avoid transfer redress
Regulator under pressure after data request reveals fewer than 70 cases opened into #pension transfer mis-selling in three years. https://t.co/SmNM0mgaAz — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) November 13, 2020 There are two ways to consider the FCA’s supposed inactivity opening cases into … Continue reading