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…
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Bec Wilson wants an Epic Retirement – 10.30 am today (click for details).
To join the coffee morning click here at 10.30 today (23rd Sept) This lady is helping us digest pensions on the Pension Playpen’s coffee morning on Tuesday 23rd September (Today). Click here for entry I’ve spoken to a few … Continue reading
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Aussie’s secret jewel on epic retirement – Bec TOMORROW Tuesday!
This lady is helping us digest pensions on the Pension Playpen’s coffee morning on Tuesday 23rd September (Tomorrow – Tuesday). Click here for entry I’ve spoken to a few times on the web and spent too long on her site. … Continue reading
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Bec Wilson unveils the best kept secret in retirement planning.
This lady is helping us digest pensions on the Pension Playpen’s coffee morning on Tuesday 23rd September (next Tuesday). Click here for entry I’ve spoken to a few times on the web and spent too long on her site. Next … Continue reading
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Louise Farrand and Mark Austin around the world for DCIF
In Louise Farrand we have a communication superstar. This wrap up of every country’s pension system compared against each other through the DCIF podcast is well worth listening to. Mark Austin speaks with Louise through 45 minutes of adventures with … Continue reading
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A good idea is a good idea wherever it’s from. SA from Aus!
I have complained a lot about the takeover of British Insurers (most especially about Just and PIC but also Upmost) by American private equity houses, Apollo and Brookfield But that doesn’t mean that the life companies can’t do good … Continue reading
Epic Retirement? Bec Wilson’s Tick means Value for Money
I’ve been speaking with Bec Wilson , who says she provides Edutainment, I like the sound of it. She’s speaking at the Pension UK October Conference. That will be knock-out She wants Australians who are a little more involved with … Continue reading
Does Homo Economicus behave as tax impacts him or her?
The chart below captures quarterly data on benefit payments made either as lump sums or pensions since late 2004. The data reveals that benefits taken as lump sums have at all times exceeded those converted into a superannuation pension … Continue reading
What do Canadians see in Britain that we don’t!
I’ve quoted this headline from Julian Bovill as it is relevant. This is from the FT courtesy of Mary McDougall Canada’s second-largest pension fund plans to invest more than £8bn in the UK over the next five years, in a … Continue reading
Australians don’t get pensions do they?
I was out with my old University buddies last night, two had emigrated to Sidney Australia and were asking me what to do about retirement. They both had DB pensions in the UK and were members of Super schemes in … Continue reading
Australians don’t get pensions do they?
I was out with my old University buddies last night, two had emigrated to Sidney Australia and were asking me what to do about retirement. They both had DB pensions in the UK and were members of Super schemes in … Continue reading
When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…