Monthly Archives: April 2023
Mortality windfalls – nasty brutish and short.
Shorter life expectancy gives UK pensions an unexpected windfall Forecasts could cut liabilities of private sector defined benefit schemes, industry figures say This is the headline of the FT’s pension piece this morning, penned by Jo Cumbo. It is no … Continue reading
Long term asset returns (a picture tells a thousand words)
A picture tells a thousand words, my blogs are a thousand words long. So I’ll leave this one at that.
WASPI a step closer to compensation
Like most men, I have tried to stay out of the argument over changes to women’s state pension age. But I am frustrated that reporting on their complaints is sporadic and , with the exception of an article in the … Continue reading
John Lewis’ pension expected to show a surplus
John Lewis staff pension fund drops by £2.8 BILLION Pension assets slump puts pressure on John Lewis John Lewis Partnership defended the financial strength of its pension fund this weekend after it emerged that the market value of its pension … Continue reading
The immoral majority that menaces our cosy world of pensions.
Pensions? Nope. Kwasi Kwarteng showed us that it just takes one moment of political madness and all your golf-filled retirement plans in the sunshine will have to be changed to include cardboard boxes and soup kitchens and rambling incoherently at … Continue reading
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Guest pension blog – by ChatGPT.
This blog took me 30 seconds to organise. What do you think? Pensions are a topic that affects us all, and understanding them is crucial to securing our financial futures. With the ever-changing pension landscape, it can be challenging … Continue reading
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Americans will get rich – if they can survive their youth.
Money can help you live longer , but it can’t keep your youth safe. America has one of the highest average incomes in the world but so many of its youth die young , that the average American would live … Continue reading
Crime and punishment- should Wayne Couzens be stripped of his pensions?
Wayne Couzens is a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder, kidnap rape, abduction and other sexual offences. He is unlikely ever to be released and so will die a prisoner. As a serving police officer he built up … Continue reading
The state pension age – on the frontline.
The last week in March saw no less than three reports on the state pension age (SPA). The Government Actuary (GAD) focussed on the ratio between workers paying taxes and pensioners benefiting from them. Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe came up … Continue reading
Geo-politics impacting supply chains- Inflation and ESG? ; Ruffer- PlayPen-Tuesday
I don’t know much about Ruffer except someone at one of those posh conferences gave me a jar of Ruffer honey. It’s useful to know what asset managers are up to and Ruffer are keen to tell us, … Continue reading