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A smorgasbord of a budget? Could be a bit messy!
Last week was disrupted to a day in UCH under the knife, this week by a train trip to the Isle of Skye and back and next week by the budget. To make it more disruptive, the Pension PlayPen is … Continue reading
ABI’s insurers invested only 0.24% of workplace pensions in Compact assets last year
The ABI have given the market an update of the progress of insurers in the investment of their workplace pensions. This is not quite the good news we might have been expecting. This from the Progress Update the ABI has … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Compact, Mansion House, Markets, Pensions, Private Equity, trackers
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Pensions UK and ABI kick off a day of pensions in Parliament
This interesting section that kicks off the day contains the two heavyweights Pensions UK and ABI . Rob Yuille and Zoe Alexander. You can watch it from 9.30 to 9.55 on this link Excuse me for giving my reaction … Continue reading
Can we bring DB back? Not it seems without the permission of the ABI.
For many years we have been led to believe that the only good DB scheme has a bulk annuity inside it and it’s on the way to being bought out. I was in hospital for the shockwaves of Pension IHT … Continue reading
Have NEST swapped pension energy for deferred annuities?
There was a moment in Paul Todd’s excellent talk when I asked myself who owns the rate at which my pot is returned to me. The answer is not clear even to Nest, it depends on what the provider … Continue reading
Why don’t insurance companies like pensions? Find out here.
The VFM podcast,which I follow, this week follows the ABI as they get a new logo,has a 40th birthday and has a conference to tell us what it can do to put Britain to rights. “Engagement” before and after retirement … Continue reading
Stop Bulk Transfer Waste : Recycle DB Pension Surpluses
“Pens down on risk transfers”, trustees and consultants urged at Mercer Conference. At the Mercer Risk Transfer Conference (Tues 11/02) in a debate with life insurers Rothesay and Just, Con Keating and William McGrath argued that bulk transfers are … Continue reading
Reeves’ bold plans for pensions will challenge the ABI
Rachel Reeves is proposing to shake up Britain’s pension system as part of a three-pronged plan aimed at boosting the economy’s sluggish growth rate if Labour wins the next election. The shadow chancellor wants more of the money saved for … Continue reading
Pension Superfunds are more than the “poor man’s buy-out”
The Government has radically changed its position on pension superfunds, at last giving feedback on its 2018 consultation and making clear that pension superfunds are helpful to pension consolidation and support the wider aims of the Treasury. The response to … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, buy-out, consolidation, defined benefit, Pension Superfund, Pensions
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