Monthly Archives: June 2021
Andrew Young – Born to Run
It’s been 7 years since I celebrated Andy Young’s 65th in his daughter’s restaurant in Seaford. You can read here how I felt then, and it’s how I feel on the great man’s 72nd birthday- today. Since he became of … Continue reading
“The old is dying. But the new is miserable”. The FT demands pension reform.
In an important and I fear under-read opinion piece, Martin Wolf characterizes the UK’s shift from DB to DC workplace pensions in a pithy phrase The old is dying. But the new is miserable. His historical view is that … Continue reading
The FT’s Martin Wolf on meaningful reform to pensions
Two things happened on Sunday that made a difference to my thinking on the pensions. the first was spending a day on my boat with Andrew Young and extended family. Andrew more or less designed the PPF and as deputy … Continue reading
The data that halted lockdown lifting- C19 ARG
http://www.covid-arg.com Friday Report: Issue 45 By: John Roberts, Matt Fletcher, Dan Ryan & Adele Groyer COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The … Continue reading
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Visions of Bob Dylan
I quoted lines from visions of Johanna in one of this week’s blogs and this (as I hoped it would) sparked my Dylanologist friend Derek Scott to send me some great comment. Although Blonde & Blonde was released in … Continue reading
Want to know more about pension scheme consolidation?
If you are interested in the dynamics of the retirement savings market , you may want to spend some or all of next Thursday afternoon (17th June) at a pension master class I am helping to organise. For those who … Continue reading
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What if your pension is being consolidated?
Over the past five years, millions of people have found their money , locked into company pension schemes , under new management. The trend for company pension schemes to close and transfer people’s savings into multi-employer schemes (known as master … Continue reading
Voices echo “this is what – salvation must be like after a while”. #EngvNZ
For the first time on home soil in 634 days, here is Jerusalem 🏴 GOOSEBUMPS.#ENGvNZ pic.twitter.com/9lwHkvYnSe — England’s Barmy Army (@TheBarmyArmy) June 10, 2021 Just before 11am yesterday, my son and I sang Jerusalem with around 5,000 over souls in … Continue reading
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Are IGCs a means to reduce costs or add value?
I have spoken to some frustrated IGC chairs this week who consider they are being used for a purpose they never signed up to – principally to drive down the cost of saving into workplace pensions. This puts them in … Continue reading
Can we get the IGCs and FCA back on the same track?
The FCA’s relationship with workplace pension providers for whom they have oversight (e.g. the providers of group personal pensions and group SIPPs) has clearly deteriorated over the past 15 months, as has its relationship with their Independent Governance Committees … Continue reading