Monthly Archives: May 2022
15m have died from Covid – Covid ARG’s 66th report.
Friday Report: Issue 66 www.covid-arg.com By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer and Matt Fletcher COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, actuaries, Covid-arg, Data, Long Covid, ONS, vaccines
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Indexed Linked Gilts and Liability Driven Investment – Keating and Spain
This is an important blog – there has been a bloodbath in index linked gilts – the 2068 is down by 42% from its early December high and we have had not a word of commentary on it. Thanks to … Continue reading
A Super-Haven for DC pots? – Adrian Boulding
I was genuinely excited to attend the Pension Playpen interview with Edi Truell. As well as his work on Superfunds as a Buy Out vehicle for old final salary schemes, which is of only tangential interest to me, Edi also … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, CDC, decumulation, Edi Truell, Pension Superfund
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The potential legacy of the pandemic on mortality
By: Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard and Melissa Shaw COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. How does the pandemic impact mortality? The impact of COVID-19 on mortality can be broadly split into three categories: direct impacts; indirect … Continue reading
The good the PLSA does
I’m excited to be returning to Edinburgh for the PLSA investment conference at the end of May. I’m going as a blogger and will be reporting on the event. I attended a digital preview of the event yesterday afternoon … Continue reading
Five compelling why pensioner poverty is all of our business
I am so pleased with the response to the campaign that Gareth and I launched yesterday. The response from the popular press has been great with our campaign being featured in many of the tabloids and local papers. The … Continue reading
Pension Credit – It’s for you! Our campaign is launched.
Gareth Morgan and I are today launching a private campaign to get the private pensions sector to pull its finger out and encourage participation in the DWP’s valuable Pension Credit benefits that not only top-up the state pension but are … Continue reading
A DB funding code – but not as we knew it
Professional Pensions has secured a scoop from TPR policy head, David Fairs admission that the DB funding code he launched in 2019 is practically dead in the water. Not being at the event, I am going on PP’s report … Continue reading
Hear Edi Truell – “live and unplugged” – this morning
That great marmite-sandwich of a man, Edi Truell will be talking with me (and hopefully you) this morning at the Pension PlayPen coffee morning. You can be there by clicking through pensionplaypen.com to the link that sits on the events … Continue reading
Ros! Pension Wise needs a wiser pension!
I am sorry to have upset Ros Altmann in what she sees as a personal attack on Pension Wise, I am not against Pension Wise as an institution, I think that the Government are expecting too much of its service … Continue reading