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What’s my “NEST” egg going to be worth?
While we continue to debate what a national savings scheme should be called, pensioners continue to shiver and the nation is no closer to a pensions solution for lower earners than when stakeholder pensions were first mooted 14 years ago. Continue reading
“I have looked over the cliff and I have seen DC”
It may have taken ten years but the precipitous drop to DC is now no joke. 2010 is likely to be a tipping point for many workplace pension schemes. Here are my personal predictions for the year ahead. Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged annuities, dc pensions, DGF, EU Solvency II, Facebook, Local government pensions, Pension new, pensioners, pensions, Personal Accounts, twitter
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Scheme liabilities- Rest in Peace
The old adage that if the Equitable Life was a pension scheme it would still be trading today can be reversed. If most pension schemes were regulated as life insurance companies are today they would not be in business. Which is why we must be very worried indeed about threats to the buy-out market and very worried for our DC members about the impact on the cost of annuity purchase. Continue reading
Posted in EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, Liability Driven Investment, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged ageing, annuities, annuity purchase, Bank, cod.halibut.pollock, Equitable Life, EU, EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, finance, fishing, insurance.trustees, Liability Driven Investment, Local government pensions, pensioners, pensions, Retirement, Retirement age, Solvency II, trawler, Treasury
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Hope I die before I get old
As a nation we are Townsendian rathan than Gallaherailian in our outlook. Continue reading