Monthly Archives: February 2021
A year of staying safe – statistics show how we survived 2020 (and will 2021)
The latest statistics from the CMI show that were it not for COVID – 2020 would have been the year of “staying alive” The CMI judge that we have now surpassed 100,000 excess deaths in the pandemic. Their quote explains … Continue reading
Pension trustees -you can’t buy a sausage with a brick!
There is an interesting article in the FT which has sparked quite different reactions from people I know. Here is it’s presentation from Jo Cumbo, who has strong views on investing other people’s money for social purpose. It’s Jo’s article. … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, ft, illiquid, Investment, jo cumbo, Paul Stanworth, Richard Butcher, richard tomlinson
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Pension comparisons need not be invidious.
In two recent posts I took a helicopter view of the new pension legislation that received Royal Assent earlier this month. I look first at how the Pension Schemes Act 2021 will be remembered by pension historians and what it … Continue reading
Too many schemes, too many pots, too little pension!
We need to sort out pensions and we pensions need to sort out the climate. These are the challenges we face and I’m pleased to see Government is on to them! Over the weekend , I tried to put the … Continue reading
These stats show why we’re locked down.
Unlike April, this peak has come after a sustained period of increased activity throughout the Autumn too, with the cumulative number of patients now exactly double that admitted in the first wave. This can be seen in the occupancy … Continue reading
How will history remember the Pension Schemes Act 2021?
The Pension Schemes Bill received Royal Assent last week and is now enacted. Though assent is a formality, it draws the line in the sand. “What is changing” is now “what has changed” and the work of Guy Opperman … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, DWP, Government, Guy Opperman, Pension new, Pension schemes Act, Pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, TCFD, TPR
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“The best use of our resources”
This article is from Dave Brooks ( @pensionsdave) ,Technical Director at Broadstone. It was originally published here. It is a good contribution to the debate which has raged on this blog. The trickiest balancing act that The Pensions Regulator … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadstone, de-risking, DWP, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement, TPR
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Openreach’s shameful exploitation of the pandemic
This blog is about Openreach, who claim to be helping Britain out with faster broadband. The reality can be very different. What follows is a case study in exploitation of the current pandemic which shows an organization paying no attention … Continue reading
Day of Celebration – Year of Cow – Vaccination, British Science and all that! (C19 ARG on fire)
Friday Report: Issue 36 By 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 and articles. The COVID‑19 Actuaries Response Group will provide you … Continue reading
Statistical impact of the vaccines in the UK – Covid ARG
Tim Cook and John Roberts for In December we published a bulletin validating the UK government’s vaccine priority order, and suggesting that 99% of deaths will be spared by vaccinating the first nine priority groups. We followed that up in … Continue reading
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Tagged #covid19, ARG, Coronavirus, Covid actuaries, priority groups, vaccoines
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