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“The belly of the beast” – Con Keating and the Investment Association
Con Keating is not everybody’s cup of tea, but he’s mine – especially when he’s after transparency. This shows him with a timely warning to those who think leaving transparency in the hands of the Investment Association is a good … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged Con Keating, Funds, Investment Association, Portfolio Turnover Rate, Transparency
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Salary Sacrifice – a foot in the door for the poorly pensioned?
Everybody knows that the pension tax-relief system is heavily weighted in favour of the have’s who get big income tax incentives. It is weighted against the low waged who can get excluded from contribution incentives altogether. Steve Webb, who thinks … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, relief at source, salary sacrifice, Steve Webb
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First Actuarial warns on knee-jerk reactions to the interest rate rise
With the Bank of England doubling interest rates, First Actuarial predicts a flurry of good and bad pension headlines, but warns of misguided optimism on funding and a rush for the door fuelled by pessimism about transfer values. Good news … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, FCA, pensions
Tagged assets, FABI, first actuarial, knee jerk, liabilities, pensions
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BSPS2 is not a lame duck – people should not feed the pike.
This tweet was put on social media by John Ralfe last night. More people read my blogs than read John’s tweets and there is a good argument for letting this idiocy lie. However, it is important that little rumours are … Continue reading
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We need to learn to love the PPF more
Hilary Salt asks “rather than designing new DB superfunds, wouldn’t it be better to grow to appreciate and improve our existing superfund?” It must be frustrating for the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) when the public perception is that to end … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged BHS, Hilary Salt, pensions, ppf, professional pensions, Royal Mail, The Pensions Regulator, USS
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Why I’m not at the PLSA conference today
I’m writing at 6am, soon I will be getting on a train to Manchester which will be full of people going to the PLSA Conference. I won’t be going to that Conference, instead I will be visiting Sage’s accountant support office … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged Aberdeen, Gupta, oncference, pensions, PLSA, Yeovil Town
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Pure DC at your university? Mike Otsuka speaks out
Mike is now a regular writer on this blog; he’s an LSE philosopher, a member of the USS pension scheme and an expert in pensions (not a “pensions expert”). Southampton has come out in favour of closing USS’s defined benefit … Continue reading
First Actuarial- proud to work for you!
I had a nice surprise over breakfast; whizzing through my emails I found that while I’ve gone on holiday, they’ve issued a FAB press release! 50:50 claim by PLSA is “dangerously misleading” says First Actuarial First Actuarial chastises the … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged Deficit, FABI, first actuarial, Infrastructure, pensions, PLSA
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New torment for investment consultants – Mike Foster.
Mike is a senior consultant at Montfort Communications. Until recently he was assistant editor at Financial News and that journalistic pedigree shines through in this remarkable piece of writing. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, investment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Aon, De Montfort, FCA, investment consultant, Mercers, pensions, Willis Towers Watson
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Workplace Pension winners and losers- Punter Southall Aspire do the numbers (Now with added NEST!)
Employers selecting DC default investment funds for their workforce pensions assume they’re making a wise investment choice. However, a new report, ‘Who’s performing well?’ from Punter Southall Aspire, which examined nine major DC pension providers’ default pension funds in their … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, investment, pensions
Tagged first actuarial, pensions, Performance, Punter Southall Aspire, workplace Pensions
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