Monthly Archives: April 2022
So how do we feel about Covid now?
Yesterday’s blog from the Covid 19 Actuarial Response Group , remarks – almost in passing Since our last update two weeks ago prevalence in England is estimated to have increased from 4.9% to 7.6%, which is its highest figure recorded. … Continue reading
Investment consultants; what we pay and why we pay.
Thanks to LCP’s Dan Mikulskis for sharing these two slides on linked in. Dan is making some important points about his own profession . He’s commenting on an article that was written by one of his colleagues, Jennifer Davidson and … Continue reading
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Covid infections break pandemic records – C19 Arg – tell you why!
http://www.covidactuaries.org Friday Report: Issue 64 By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer, Matt Fletcher and Dan Ryan COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group provides a bi-weekly Friday … Continue reading
Paying pension credit automatically….
Spare 25mins and listen to this week’s Money Box on @BBCSounds – Council Tax £150 energy rebate and @henryhtapper talking about 1m older people missing out on Pension Credit and up to £3,000 a year plus access to gateway benefits … Continue reading
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April is the cruellest month…
This morning is April 1st, but rather than fooling about, I’m going to be boning up for an appearance on Paul Lewis’ Moneybox tomorrow. I’ll be talking about Pension Credit, why we need more people to claim their entitlement and … Continue reading
“Compensation on the cheap” – BSPS redress exclusive and slow
The FCA estimate that 46% of the 7,800 “consumers” who transferred out of BSPS in the “time to choose” were wrongly advised. The loss from this advice is stated. “We have used data from firms and FSCS to estimate … Continue reading