Category Archives: Liability Driven Investment

Re-engaging employers with their staff pensions

Posted on August 14, 2015 by

Once it was so simple. Good employers offered good pensions and lousy employers didn’t. The good employers congregated at NAPF conferences and congratulated themselves and an industry fed on the easy money growing within these plans. But then came lower … Continue reading →

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Is the game up for active fund management?

Posted on May 3, 2014 by

The Department for Communities and Local Government announced yesterday that £85bn of actively managed assets could be transferred to passive management and that the fund of fund structures could be collapsed into a collective investment vehicles. This is very significant … Continue reading →

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A promise or a guarantee?

Posted on January 4, 2014 by

If Steve Webb wants AE to work, he should stop turning promises into guarantees and burdening employers with unforeseen liabilities and huge consultative and administrative costs. Continue reading →

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You want a workplace pension for your staff? – delighted to help!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by

Mrs HR Dee Smallco Ltd. Sunny Uplands GB Dear Mrs Dee, Thanks for your enquiry. I can see you are sold on the idea of offering a workplace pension for your staff. You know you have to anyway, but I … Continue reading →

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When pensions de-mutualise

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

When you take the mutuality out of pensions , you take good pensions out of mutuals. Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, de-risking, defined aspiration, Financial Education, First Actuarial, John lewis, Liability Driven Investment, Management, pensions | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Do investment consultants need qualifications?

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

failure cannot be attributed to poor investment consultancy, more to an absence of investment consultancy where it matters Continue reading →

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More cobblers from investment experts on DC pensions

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

I am afraid I have to report yet more moronic thinking from the investment community showing their  disconnect with the ways and means of everyday folk. Example one is from Lyxor, who used to be called Societe Generale until they screwed … Continue reading →

Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, club pension, Consolation, dc pensions, defined aspiration, happiness, Liability Driven Investment, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Public sector pensions, with-profits | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Why we need to say “NO” to pension guarantees!

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

On Monday the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries delivered a paper stating that it would be able to deliver a system of lock-in guarantees at a price of less than 1% pa of the fund that could be used by … Continue reading →

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Sorting the pensions of the “squeezed middle”.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

There are three distinct streams among those old enough to work and young enough not to, Stream One is for  those who can look forward to retirement with a degree of confidence because their employer is guaranteeing it. They are primarily … Continue reading →

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Meaningless choice

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

“choices should only be offered where they are meaningful, timely and can be taken in the full understanding of both up and downside”.
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Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments