Aitken is most concerned with life insurers/assurers. Warren Buffett invested in non-life insurers for their distinctive economics, particularly the investment…
Agreed - though the contribution rates into private sector DB when we were accruing was often less than deficit payments…
my point is a simple one. Apart from DB pension provision in the U.K. is a disgrace Individual Median Pension…
It's a made up statistic and I'm sure AI would give you a different one but we need to accept…
Monthly Archives: June 2025
Gloversblog: The three Cs and cautious optimism for Yeovil Town
Ian Perkins June 13, 2025 Gloversblog Three more Cs can be added to cautious optimism I’ve felt since Prabhu Srinivasan and family took over at Huish Park. Competitive. Calmness. Community.On a sweltering evening in the Alec Stock lounge, Glovers … Continue reading
Fifteen years ago Lady Lucy went to Henley (happy memories)
Lady Lucy will be sailing on Thursday (First Actuarial Day), Friday (Mallowstreet Day) and Sunday (by invitation). If you’d like to come, contact me on 07785 377768, we might just have a space!
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Let’s stop worrying about charges and investment projections. We can do better!
Thanks Richard , I hear your frustration and wonder when smart marketing makes SMPI projections worthless. Individual choice is driven by a Fear of Missing Out and a lifetime being told by regulators to get the best deal that the … Continue reading
Riverside allegories for global flows of productive capital
It is a beautiful June morning with hundreds of Canadian geese on the river; and a single black swan and a single white swan. My partner is sailing off the coast of Portugal and I am seeing allegories in the … Continue reading
Value for Money for the taxpayer from the pension system
I look forward to July 1st and the possibility that the next Mansion House Speech will bring forward progress towards a Britain properly funded and partially funded by pensions. I get this from Ros Altmann We have the text of … Continue reading
Some alternative ideas to excite workplace pensions!
I have been looking at my diary over the past two weeks and the week to come and I find all the excitement has come and is coming from meetings with the author if SeLFIES, the folk down at Nest … Continue reading
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS – DYING FOR OUR PENSIONS
THE UNARGUABLE CASE FOR PAYING PRE-1997 “PAID FOR” INFLATION PROTECTION Terry Monk The Pensions Action Group (PAG) We are grateful to Age Wage for covering this continuing and increasing problem for FAS pensioners . Background I worked in … Continue reading
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Can Reeves get her money back by taxing our pensions?
For the first time in a while I have good things to say about the Telegraph’s reporting on pensions. Rob White is right to point out that with restrictions on raising income tax, the Chancellor might choose to go … Continue reading
Time for big insurers to sound like megafunds
Whatever our personal preferences, we cannot deny the capacity of insurers to take the lion’s share of places at the mega fund table. This diagram is taken from the Impact Assessment of the Pension Bill/Act. Note that the model the … Continue reading
Winter fuel payments mean more than inheritance pensions and VAT on school fees.
Much as readers of the FT may feel the pain, the introduction of VAT on school fees like the position of IHT on unspent DC pots is not a Winter Fuel issue for the country. I dare say the readers … Continue reading
"A couple might scrape together a combined private capital base of £240,000 provides only around £9,600 to £11,000 per year…