Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…
I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
Tag Archives: Australia
I love the pair of glamorous grannies whose pots have turned to pensions!
Hats off to Aussie Friends for persevering, so that the these glamour grannies can depress the besuited business man! Continue reading
The Australians deciding what a Super’s for, and how it should be judged
Jim Hennington has helped Australian savers to understand their Supers while they are working. But now millions of Australians are beyond saving and want to spend their savings. How good are Supers at helping people do this. This is what … Continue reading
DC is hard when you get to retire? You don’t say?
This article starts According to several Canadian defined contribution (DC) plans experts, DC plans were never designed to get members through retirement because they were built to accumulate assets during working years. As a result, that gap is now catching … Continue reading
Naomi Rovnick talks a lot about private credit (as do the Australians)
Naomi Rovnick has been sharing the news to those who will listen for at least a year. I too am concerned about the way that the pension credit situation is being reported in the UK. I do not have her … Continue reading
Australians can’t seem to pay themselves the pension they have earned
The difficulty of getting people to pay themselves a pension is explained in this article. We’ve had this problem in the UK as well, though it’s not so obvious. People lose track of their pension pots and providers lose touch … Continue reading
It seems the emotional attachment to “bricks and mortar” is the same in Australia as in Britain
I don’t know Ben Walsh, but I should, he’s Australian and a member of the Pension PlayPen. But better than either, he writes a mean column on linked in For Australia read Britain Ben!
An Australian vision for our pensions – perfect for a Boxing Day!
Today sees a Boxing Day match between England and Australia at cricket (Australia have a first innings lead of 42). On this blog there’s a match between Tom McPhail and Bec Wilson and you can read Tom’s innings here. Bec’s … Continue reading
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Strata creates Australian property micro-states and teaches the UK lessons!
Last night, I sat and listened to Michael Teys . He talked to us of how Australian’s European founders rejected the UK system of freehold and have built in the past 250 years a system that has much to teach … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Harry Scotfin, Kings College, London, Michael Teys, Strata
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A big question of Commonwealth emerges in our pension investment
The FT examines the empathy between Canada and British investment of pension schemes. In an article this morning with London’s Mary McDougall and Ilya Gridneff in Toronto Like the UK, Canada has been examining how to channel more pension assets to … Continue reading
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Instaviduals? How you get Pension VFM out of geo political conferences. Indeed.
Sophie Baker, South Londoner and Crystal Palace fan (funny how there are suddenly so many of them right now) is on the VFM podcast. Sophie is a journalist for a mag I’ve never read but which runs a Linked In … Continue reading
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When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…