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The Bank of England fails to invest any of its £3.5bn staff pension for UK growth
This is a comment from my recent blog on the BOE and PRA’s open criticism of the DWP’s arguments for CDC. The most important criticism of the BoE pension fund is that it is not aligned with the government’s growth … Continue reading
BOE “expert” scorns his Government’s CDC reform; should we have pensions like his?
I woke on a Saturday morning to this comment from someone who works at the Bank of England. It was in response to my congratulatory blog that Mercer finally have a lead consultant to promote CDC. You can read … Continue reading
We are planning for pensions to fail and that is not a way for Britain to grow,
This appears in Mary McDougall’s timeline for her recent posting, I guess it was two months ago that this snippet appeared and I missed it but it seems rather more important since the Aberdeen/Stagecoach Pension deal. There is a future … Continue reading
Not that much “reassurance” about shifting my pension to an insurer.
I am not surprised that , ahead of publishing the numbers of the 11 insurers n the UK annuity market, the PRA has reassured us that none are currently in trouble or likely to be trouble from the risks we … Continue reading
Pensioners- most at risk – have no idea what’s going on.
I have blogged on this speech recently and it’s good to see a UK insurer (M&G) putting clear blue water between us and Bermuda (pun intended). I am not sure whether any of my readers is in the process of … Continue reading
Why is Brookfield’s purchase of Just getting so much attention?
I look at the stats on my blogs at the end of the working week. This week’s were strange; the two blogs on Brookfield taking over Just had twice the reads of any other. I thought it might be of … Continue reading
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How will deals get done / how will pensions be well run?
Whether we are talking about the macro management of the economy or the micro management of people’s finances things are grinding to a halt. The long-maturity auction is being delayed a quarter, this hurts buy-ins, buy-outs , take-overs of pension … Continue reading
“Not so fast” – BOE tells insurers “moderation in all things”
I got to yesterday’s Pension Age conference just as LCP’s Ken Hardman was explaining how capacity for bulk buy-out was expanded by a healthy reinsurance market. When I got home late that evening I found myself reading a speech by … Continue reading
Who’s in regulatory control of DB pensions?
The Financial Policy Committee’s recommendation is that the Pensions Regulator is re-equipped with another statutory objective, to become pension’s agent for the Bank’s work on financial stability. For departing CEO, Charles Counsell, this means a handover to incoming CEO Nausicaa … Continue reading
BOE pins LDI crisis on the “obscurity” of small DB funds.
Yesterday I reported on BOE +PRA batting for the pensioner against Government – batting for insured buy-out. That discussion was played out in front of parliament’s Treasury Committee on Monday and that same meeting – part of an inquiry into … Continue reading