Monthly Archives: December 2020
TPR goes blog to blog with its critics
Fight fire with fire, even if it’s friendly fire! That seems to be the tactic adopted by David Fairs as head of policy at the Pensions Regulator. His latest blog is the clearest indication yet that TPR is adopting … Continue reading
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Could we get a double win-reducing COVID and seasonal flu?
Covid-Arg.com By Stephen Kramer for … Continue reading
Bigger Pots and Bigger Pensions through Open Finance
‘Breaking Banks: A blueprint for Open Finance that puts customers first’ puts forward a series of recommendations to help create a functional Open Finance ecosystem in a post-Brexit economy. Within the report, COADEC calls for the UK government to break … Continue reading
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Tagged Coadec, open finance, Pension Bee, Pension Dashboard, pension dashboards, Pensions
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Smart phones promote skin tones, but trolling won’t impress me
This tweet appeared yesterday. pic.twitter.com/irqEyxASng — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) December 8, 2020 I got to see it as John Ralfe was responding to a post from me , a post from Con Keating who is the gent in the red … Continue reading
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How logical is the UK’s vaccine priority ordering?
By Yifei Gong and Stuart McDonald COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. Summary Nine groups in the UK have been prioritised to be vaccinated in the first phase. In this bulletin, we consider the logic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Covid-arg, Sophie Gong, Stuart McDonald
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A Minister Drinking the Regulator’s Kool-Aid – No Consolation
An article by Con Keating The preamble to a recent article in Professional Pensions by the Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, read: ” In the fourth of a five-part series of articles for PP, pensions minister Guy Opperman sets out how … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, consolation, consolidation, DB, DWP, Funding Code, Pension Regulator, Pensions, politics, Retirement, TPR
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RDR review – long on problems – short on answers
‘Advice firms appear to face little competitive pressure to innovate and offer new, more affordable services, or to try to attract less wealthy consumers. Competition does not appear to be operating effectively in the interests of consumers.’ If you were … Continue reading
How will the vaccine change things? A triple Dutch dose!
Triple Dutch Www.crownactuaries.eu Servaas Houben, Kees Van Heugten and Rob Smit are three Dutch actuaries who have been doing their own modelling of the impact of Covid-19. They have now produced a paper on the likely impact of … Continue reading
The curse of wealth (and the pleasure from income)
The purpose of money is to pay for things that are needed. The definition of need varies but the link with liability is strong. For most people , the fear of not being able to pay for things we need … Continue reading
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Tagged curse, curse of wealth, financial planning, Wealth, wealth management
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Everything you need to know about vaccines (and more) .Covid-ARG
Monthly medical update – Issue 5 … Continue reading