Monthly Archives: November 2020
USS; are UCU and UUK missing the big picture?
This is nonsense. If universities can’t pay the required #USS DB contribution, then simply move to DC, which was of course the original plan. Universities backed down in the face of strikes https://t.co/rYtU1azGjM via @timeshighered — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) November … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, CDC, USS, Value for Money
Tagged AgeWage, Business and Economy, CDC, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Guy Opperman, Jo O'grady, John Ralfe, Mike Otsuka, Norma Cohen, pension
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Wishing you an authentically #LidlChristmas
Thanks to Lidl GB , I look forward to an authentic Christmas that I can believe in. I have no idea why or how Lidl will make me feel this way, but if its trailer for its Christmas ad is … Continue reading
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Tagged #authentic, #Lidlchristmas, Brand, Christmas, Father Christmas, lidl, Quietroom
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Covidiot Haikus – just one delight of the 28th Cov-arg Friday report!
Friday Report – Issue 28 Covid-arg.com By Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver and John Roberts COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers … Continue reading
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Are our pension schemes the treasury’s piggy bank?
Yesterday I published a series of tweets from Jo Cumbo on the difficulties the Pensions Regulator would have balancing the interests of members and sponsors with the interests of Rishi Sunak in getting schemes to invest in the nation’s infrastructure. … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged DB pensions, dc pensions, DWP, LTAF, Pensions, Rishi Sunak, TPR
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Cumbo asks “can pension schemes invest for social good and keep TPR happy?”
Rishi Sunak is keen to see pension schemes invest to get Britain to its climate change commitments. This week the Treasury set out its financial services policy which ended with a promise to encourage investment in long-term illiquid assets, … Continue reading
Pensions – “in chaos – need to unite” -sound familiar?
What do George Osborne and Donald Trump have in common? DISRUPTION – that’s what. Disruption happens when a system has fallen into a state where it is no longer functioning for the people it serves. It would seem that the … Continue reading
Bus pass beckons
I find myself alarmingly close to getting a free buss pass – I am 59 today. My father once told me the first thing I heard was him telling off my Mum for breaking the two minute silence, I was … Continue reading
R=<1 ? Gordon Woo asks "what compliance does the UK need"?
What degree of compliance do we need? By Gordon Woo for … Continue reading
Bob Compton speaks out on Pension Funding
Bob Compton MD of Arc Benefits is quietly spoken but an acute listener. He wrote to me yesterday this mail which provides a fascinating insight into the debate over how we fund our open and closed DB schemes and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Benefits, Bob Compton, Guy Opperman, parliament, Pensino Schemes Bill, TPR
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More protest at the DB funding code! When will it end?
An anonymous person writes. I am bound like Ixion to a wheel and must publish. Hot on the heels of Clacher and Keating’s excoriation of the skin and bones I have gleaned from the interweb, I get by carrier pigeon … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, journalism, pensions
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