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Tag Archives: Adrian Boulding
Pot consolidation doesn’t need alchemy – it needs common purpose and leadership
The case for Government intervention on “small pots” is made very well by Dirk Paterson It is indeed time for Government intervention, but the choices are many and each has its issues. The danger of relying on Government intervention … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, Dirk Paterson, Guy Opperman, Innovation, NOW, pensions, Pot follows member
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The financing of DC
As anticipated (in blogging), yesterday’s article on CDC attracted some vitriol, not just from my friend Con Keating, but from the inter-web of things. The idea that a #cdc plan could smooth outcones by borrowing is a load of #bollocks … Continue reading
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Tagged #bollocks, Adrian Boulding, CDC, dc, henry tapper, John Ralfe
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Trustees and transfers
Jo Cumbo’s article in Pensions Expert on contingent charging takes a dim view of trustee behaviour to date. Her idea that advice to stay in a DB scheme could be paid for by docking the original pension has got some … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, jo cumbo, pensions, Phil Yound, SJP, transfers, trustees
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Pension ages are equal – but some pensions are more equal than others!
A strange kind of pension equality Women are planning to work ten years longer than they’d originally supposed according to a Dunstan Thomas survey. “Austerity in Action” – Adrian Boulding calls it. Women don’t just seem less pensioned , … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, Equality, Pension Inequality, pensions, Ros Altmann
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How GDPR helps us make sense of pensions!
Adrian Boulding has written an excellent article about the new cost and charges disclosures. I will quote only the conclusion and urge you read the rest of it here. Can we hope to obtain full investment charges data onto a … Continue reading
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Aren’t Employer and Union’s interests aligned at USS?
Adrian Boulding has left a comment on yesterday’s blog that is rather better than the blog itself. As I am on the last day of my holiday in Paris, I will blog the comment and add a few thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, Bill Galvin, ft, pensions, UCU, Universities UK, USS
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Extreme investment caution’s killing off final salary schemes – Boulding.
Extreme investment caution is killing off final salary pensions, believes Adrian Boulding – and, within that, there is a stark message too for the defined contribution saver. Adrian is a long time friend of this blog and I’m pleased … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, DB, defined benefit, Dunstan Thomas, final salary, pensions, Retirement
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Why we don’t have health-based pension transfer values.
A Coleridge moment in the City I walked into a church at the bottom of Bow Street yesterday afternoon to have a cup of coffee. Slumped over his laptop, deep in thought, I saw a friend… He awoke from a statistical revery and stared … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, de-risking, ETV, first actuarial, James Smith, pensions, Pie, Pie exercise, Transfer values, TV
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Crowd-sourcing a solution to the net-pay pension problem.
The people who are losing out on Government contributions into their workplace pensions because their schemes work on net pay rather than “relief at source” are oblivious of this problem, they serve coffee in Costa, work in nursing homes and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, auto enrolment, DWP, henry tapper, Kate Upcraft, net-pay, Pensioins, pension, relief at source, Ros Altmann, Workie, workplace pension
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FINANCIAL UNDERSTANDING – what one insurer’s doing to improve things.
A lot of people think that big financial institutions prey upon the ignorance of the public. Many have, many have treated their customers as seals to be clubbed on the beach. Part of the problem for insurers was that they … Continue reading
