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Category Archives: Treasury
Why we should be proud to invest our savings in real assets!
My blog yesterday on USS attracted a lot of attention on social media and some interesting comment. This from Ros Altmann – a blog in its own right; Excellent piece Henry. There is insufficient differentiation in this DB debate … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, infrastucture, investment, pensions, Treasury
Tagged investment consultants, long-view, pension schemes, pensions, Ros Altmann, Royal Mail, USS, ]
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The value to me of “set and hold”!
The FT is masterful with understatement. A 2% charge can take quite a chunk out of the overall portfolio return If your predicted investment return is (say) inflation +3%, having to earn 2% to pay your investment manager, custodian … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions, pot, Treasury
Tagged Asset management, cardano, LDI, Michelle McGrade, pensions, redington, Set and Go
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CETVs; the flight from quality
Both the Times and the Financial Times report today on the anticipated voluntary withdrawals from Britain’s DB pensions through cash equivalent transfer values (CETVs). The FT, relying on Mercer as a source, estimate the withdrawals to be as much as … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions, Treasury
Tagged CETV, contingent fees, DB, defined benefit, Ros Altmann, Scam, transfers
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“Help to save accounts”- crumbs for the poor.
The Government is planning (according to the BBC) to spend £70m of tax-payers money incentivising those who are not in work (but trying to get a job) to build up an emergency kitty. These savings will be held in “help … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Treasury
Tagged Budget, Budget16, dc pensions, DWP, Help to Save, Osborne, pension tax relief, pensions, Sop to the poor, Treasury
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Running Pension Policy – Snapchat Style!
There are leaks and there are leaks, but this feels like the Treasury pulling the plug out with the bath full and ready! Take a look at the timeline of the Times’ story (12.01am); this is no idle tittle-tattle from the … Continue reading
Posted in Pension Freedoms, pensions, Treasury
Tagged DWP, HMRC, HMT, pensions, Ros Altmann, tax relief, tax-reform, Treasury
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Auto-enrolment limits – what the DWP aren’t saying!
The DWP’s paper on the Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Bands(QEB) for auto-enrolment next year is very well written and gives an insight into just how much thought is going into managing the conflicting needs of employers, workers, administrators and…HMRC. … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Treasury, welfare, Workie
Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, PLSA, relief at source, salary sacrifice, Tax, tax relief, Treasury
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The tricky job of enrolling the self-employed into pensions
The estimate from the Citizen’s Advice Bureau that some 460,000 extra workers are currently missing out on auto-enrolment because employers deem them independently self-employed seems reasonable. When employers conduct a workforce assessment, they generally do so with a cut of … Continue reading
The transfer mess gets worse…
It’s been some weeks since I wrote about transfers. To recap, I have been predicting a seizure in the transfer market , resulting from high demand, low-advisory capacity and pipes blocked with regulatory effluent. So it doesn’t come as a … Continue reading
Posted in Treasury, trustee
Tagged Actuarial science, advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, Financial Services Authority, London, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pension transfers, pensions, Politics, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement
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So what’s the point of the DC trustee?
It’s the first rule of trusteeship- if you can’t measure it – don’t trust it. It’s the right of anyone who has their own pension pot to know how much they are paying for the management of their money. … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Treasury, workplace pensions
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc, dc pensions, Defined Contribution, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, Indpendent Trustees, professional pensions, Richard Butcher, trustees, workplace Pensions
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Sing if you’re “GLAD” to be grey!
If you’re old enough to recognise the reference to Tom Robinson’s 1977 gay anthem then you’re grey, bald or using restorer! Here’s Tom singing about queer bashing on “So it Goes” , complete with Japanese sub-titles (that’s the wonder of … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, Guidance, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Treasury
Tagged Fun, Glad to be gay, Guarantee, Guidance, Tom Robinson
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