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How to talk to your staff about pensions
Quietroom are silently curating a lot of good advice using linked in. If you have the dexterity and the eyesight to access their posts , then here’s the link to the document. But I struggled and when I found the … Continue reading
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, ESG, FCA, governance, investment, pensions
Tagged City of London, Coronavirus, ESG, Heart of the City, HOC
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Will health insurers be unlikely winners from Covid-19?
Background Much of the media and public attention is focused on the progression of Covid-19 in terms of cumulative and daily number of cases, deaths and recoveries. However, for health actuaries, our key interest is in infection rates and … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, EU Solvency II, pensions
Tagged Adrian Baskir, BUPA, Coronavirus, Healthcare, PMI, Private Medical insurance, WordPress
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Almost a quarter of Australian “seniors” have run out of savings.
Jim Hennington is a good actuary and like a good Aussie, he tells it how it is. We all know the Australian Super system is a mature DC pension savings system, much more mature than the UK’s. In this article, … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, dc pensions, de-risking, pensions
Tagged Account based pension, Australia, CDC, Jim Hennington, National Seniors Australia, pensions
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The pension must go on
As we all work in our individual way from our individual workplaces, it’s hard to see the big picture – we see plenty of trees but not the wood. Pensions are not about us but about the people who get … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged admin, administration, advice, Furlough, Investment, Oil, pension, Show must go on
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icnarc highlights – an actuary explains what the data is telling us (April 17)
ICYMI – I did my commentary on this week’s ICNARC report yesterday, a day earlier than in recent weeks. https://t.co/2TZybdTsTW — stuart mcdonald (@ActuaryByDay) April 19, 2020 Another week, another @ICNARC report. When I dug through this report two weeks … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged actuaries, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19 action group, icnarc
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Care homes – the elephant is out the room
We can take as the roughest of approximations that the numbers dying in care or at home is about half of the number in hospitals. That would mean that the number who have died outside hospital by now (April … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Data, Death, elephant, residential care, Room Covid-19
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ReAssure’s IGC report
ReAssure, after a short delay, have published their 2019/20 IGC report which you can read here It’s a betwixt and between document as at the time of publication, ReAssure is in the process of being acquired by Phoenix and in … Continue reading
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Tagged IGC, pensions, Reassure, workplace pensons
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Actuaries weekly round up ; Covid-19
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID19 Actuaries Response Group read more about the outbreak than most, so we’ve decided each Friday to provide you with a curated list of the … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Actuary, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver
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Furloughing financial advice?
This blog has been furloughed
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged advice, Furlough, IFA, pensions, Succession, Work
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