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Category Archives: pensions
COVID-19; the 30th weekly bulletin – bad news for French hikers
Weekly Report: Issue 30 By Nicola Oliver and John Roberts COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID‑19 Actuaries Response Group will provide you … Continue reading
Modelling COVID-19; what have we learned?
The Covid-19 pandemic, with its associated human tragedy, has been devastating for many families. This has presented new challenges for policy-makers, governments, corporates and others. Actuaries have been at the forefront in modelling the virus in terms of cumulative and … Continue reading
No blubbing over the future of RPI please.
“I love the way they are doing this – it is not a move from RPI to CPIH, but recalculating RPI as if it were CPIH – and unless the Bank of England says that is a material change, eliminates … Continue reading
Lessons to learn from Dolphin Trust
18 months after its first program, Radio Four’s You and Yours program has produced a second program on Dolphin Trust (aka the German Property Group). You can listen to the second program here As I’d followed up on the … Continue reading
DCIF; we won’t pay higher fees without sight of better value
On Ricki Sushak’s “day of reckoning” , the DCIF unveiled a 75 page report from Richard Parkin on progress made by DC master trusts in adopting best investment practice. The agenda of the report is clearly focused on DC as … Continue reading
Simon Baynes – a great loss to pensions and to all who knew him
We learned yesterday of the death of Simon Baynes, a pension trustee who was known, respected and liked by everyone I know. For a sense of the breadth of service Simon gave to pensions, the church and his community, … Continue reading
Tomorrow is a day of reckoning -DIES IRAE
Wednesday will be a day or reckoning – DIES IRAE, DIES ILLA, that day is a day of wrath. We have paid a high price for less productivity and less enjoyment. If there is such a thing as a lose-lose, … Continue reading
CPI, RPI and CPIH – get up to speed pension people!
I first published this blog in May 2017. Since then the Treasury has been consulting on the RPI/CPI/CPIH issues identified by the Royal Statistical Society. The result of that consultation is due anytime (most likely Wednesday 25th November). The … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions, Retirement
Tagged CPI, CPIH, Mike Harrison, Pensions, Royal Statistical Society, RPI
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The Regulator’s not for turning; in conversation with David Fairs,
David Fairs and I were born within a couple of months and have both spent our careers in pensions. We enjoy each other’s company so when David suggested that we spent the last 90 minutes of the business week … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Blogging, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics, Public sector pensions
Tagged David Fairs, Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Time to put a stop to the pseudo-science of life-styling
For 25 years, “life-styling” has been the accepted wisdom for defined contribution pension schemes in the UK. Pension experts now use the phrase without thought to the confusion of a public for whom lifestyle means something altogether different from the … Continue reading
