Monthly Archives: March 2022
I’m doing the Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning at 10.30am
If you fancy taking an hour out of your not so busy day, I’ll be talking at the Pension PlayPen coffee morning today at 10.30 am. You need to go to Pensionplaypen.com and either register on the site or … Continue reading
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Transfer volumes fall, the FCA back in trouble and bears visit the woods
Yesterday was one of those days where various stories break together like rippling waves onto a calm beach. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, having read the National Audit Offices report on the BSPS fiasco, has duly called … Continue reading
Asleep in a meeting? The FCA’s new consumer duty starts at the top.
I have no reason to doubt Al Rush of Philippa Hann’s account of a 2019 meeting with then FCA boss’ Andrew Bailey. Al claims that “there were a number of times when his [Bailey] head dropped and he had … Continue reading
RPI v CPI – the evidence so far; (Jon&Con)
This article is from Jon Spain and Con Keating, intellectual powerhouses of this blog. It asks us took again at the relationship between RPI and CPI Financial services professionals commonly state that, over the long term, RPI increases will … Continue reading
Ian McKenna’s dashboard rant gets a huge “like”
I didn’t realise I had as much in common with Ian McKenna – nearly 5,000 linked in connections it seems! Those bonds were cemented yesterday when Ian posted this great comment on my blog on pension dashboards. Ian McKenna Winner … Continue reading
Enough of your schemes – CDC FUNDS please! –
The Americans are right in discouraging the phrase “pension scheme”. Like “default fund”, the phrase plays badly to people who think scheming and defaulting are examples of bad not good practice. I was set to thinking this while publishing and … Continue reading
Testing times for the CDC code – Keating and Clacher
CDC Code – Testing Times This is the fourth article from Con Keating and Iain Clacher on the proposed CDC funding code, the means the Pensions Regulator intends to use to authorise and manage CDC schemes, the first of which … Continue reading
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The Italian try that sunk Wales
The game winning try for Italy 🏉 FT: 🏴 Wales 21-22 Italy 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/p1zrrB1OVj — BBC ScrumV (@BBCScrumV) March 19, 2022
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I bet you’d look good on a dashboard..
If I was in the habit of singing about pensions , I might adapt the Arctic Monkeys’ speculation to our expectations of a pension dashboard. Whatever started out as a noble love story has degenerated into sordid flirtation between the … Continue reading
BA2 and restriction-lifting set Covid cases soaring (C-19 Arg)
Friday Report: Issue 63 By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer, Dan Ryan and Matt Fletcher 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 … Continue reading
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