Monthly Archives: March 2021
The secondary market in workplace pensions
In 2013, Pension PlayPen founded a choose a pension service for employers needing to designate a workplace pension so that staff could be auto-enrolled according to the staging roll-out. At the time, we predicted that once the heavy lifting had … Continue reading
The end for small DC trust-based schemes?
My old firm, First Actuarial have published a timely bulletin to its clients which I’m drawing on here. It gives me the title for this blog and sets out the issues troubling Government in a clear and formal way. … Continue reading
What can men do on International Women’s Day?
I’m challenged by it being International Women’s Day today. What can I do? Firstly I can promote the inequality between men and women’s pensions via Scottish Widows who are prompting us with a simple question – how can we fix … Continue reading
Jabs – we don’t know how lucky we are!
I was jabbed on Friday, on Saturday I got an invitation from University College Hospital to get a jab, so long as I hadn’t had a jab. I wrote to them declining but asking for my jab to go to … Continue reading
What will lifestyle buy me?
“What will Lifestyle buy me?” is a great question. It’s one posed by a lady in a discussion group I’m a part of – looking at how we measure and use value for money as a measure – in workplace … Continue reading
USS’ view of investment returns is anything but prudent – Keating
Once is chance, twice bad luck, but three times – “Enemy Action” USS has been at it again. On March 1 2021, they published a paper entitled: “The difference between our expected investment returns and our prudent assumptions”. The paper … Continue reading
Underpayments of the State Pension estimated at £2.7bn.
In May last year, former Minister Steve Webb, now a partner with actuarial practice, Lane Clark and Peacock, launched a calculator to help the nation’s Grannies work out if they were entitled to more state pension than they had received.. … Continue reading
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C19; your monthly medical update from the actuaries.
Monthly medical update – Issue 7 5 March 2021 By Nicola Oliver and Dan Ryan for http://www.covid-arg.com COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. Given the pace of change with ‘all things COVID’, it can be hard … Continue reading
The terror of league tables
Unless you are top of the league (and having a laugh), looking at a league table with you or your team in it, can be a scary team. Friday afternoon is when First Actuarial publish their Monkey League and … Continue reading
Is Covid a blip or will it make us live shorter?
What does the latest CMI Mortality Projections Model tell us? By Andrew Gaches for COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. Summary The CMI’s latest mortality projections model CMI_2020, and accompanying working paper, show that users adopting the … Continue reading