Tag Archives: Arun Muralidhar
How important are risk preferences for DC – Muralidhar 10.30 am Today
Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen INVITATION REMINDER – Coffee Morning…How important are risk preferences for DC? TYPE – Online WHEN: Tomorrow Tuesday 6th January 2026 at 10:30am Happy New Year to all our members! We are delighted to invite you to the … Continue reading
All together now! Why the Americans need to learn the British way of pensions.
I don’t know how to phrase this but….perhaps the Royal Mail’s advert to its staff does. Thanks to those at Royal Mail that blazed a trail so that we can have CDC not just for one company but for thousands. … Continue reading
Rachel Reeves’ Retirement Revolution: A Golden Gift or a Lost Opportunity?
A friend to this blog, Arun Muralidhar, has sent me a timely academic paper . It has an abstract but I have called in another friend Mr Chas Grip Pitt who has summed it up so that only the most … Continue reading
Pensions Need SeLFIES, not PE! And Brazil Has Shown the Way
By Dr. Arun Muralidhar Adjunct Professor of Finance, Georgetown University The recent focus on adding private assets, typically Private Equity (PE), to pensions is gathering steam in the United States and the United Kingdom, but is completely misdirected (“Should … Continue reading
“HMT Should Issue SeLFIES”; Muralidhar’s Solution to a Key Challenge in the UK Retirement Market
This blog is by Dr. Arun S. Muralidhar Author: Arun S. Muralidhar, Ph DCo-founder and Client Portfolio Manager/Designed of SeLFIES and Education Bond; Alpha Engine Global Investment Solutions LLC There is a looming retirement crisis in the UK as … Continue reading
Can Arun’s SeLFIES solve the small pot-to-pension problem?
There are millions of people in this country with pension pots that are too small to convert to an annuity (or Pension SuperHaven) , that are impractical for drawdown but which people want to use to add to their state … Continue reading
Wealth – slave of the wise – master of the fool
I would like to keep up with the various posts of Arun Muralidhar but they are as cantankerous as the blogs of Montaigne and impenetrable as the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. I can amuse myself and hopefully you , … Continue reading
Brazilians with small pots repeat buy state pension bonds
Anyone doing any thinking about how those outside the pension system could turn savings to pensions? Arun Muralidhar is. I’m fed up with hearing how “small pots” are best cashed in. Small pots with a few thousand pounds in them, … Continue reading
“No use crying over pensions” – Arun Muralidhar’s DC reset.
SeLFIES (Standard-of-Living indexed, Forward-starting, Income-only Securities). The SeLFIES bond is a single, liquid, low-cost, low-risk instrument, easy-to-understand for even the most financially unsophisticated individual, because it embeds accumulation, decumulation, compounding and inflation-adjustments. SeLFIES is good for governments too, as the … Continue reading
Pensions for the people who like the state pension best – This morning 10.30
I’m really pleased to have Arun Muralidhar back joining us for a Pension PlayPen coffee morning. He’ll be talking about “Selfies”, his unique proposition which is catching on in countries as diverse as the Netherlands and Brazil. His proposition is … Continue reading