Tag Archives: Bonds
So you think that your pension was bought out by a gilt-edged insurer?
All year I have been writing about the security of buy-ins and buy-outs of occupational pensions in the UK by insurers. I am talking in particular about our insurers that are shipping off assets and liabilities to the USA and … Continue reading
Just How Serious Are the Growing Pains in the UK’s Bond Market?
Ian McKnight Ian’s little column: enjoy my blog on Pension Funds Online ; please do follow us for more cutting edge content at Cartwright Pension Trusts! Pension Funds Online pensionfundsonline.co.uk The UK economy is grappling with a sense of … Continue reading
Toby says we’re not going to the IMF – we’re not broke – phew!
It is good to learn about capital markets from a friendly expert and that’s how I regard Toby Nangle. Here he is explaining bonds and how the UK is being treated. The question of how solvent the UK is , … Continue reading
How we loved and fell out of love with the FTSE 30 (a lesson for pensions)
John Plender has been an FT correspondent as long as most people have been alive and lately he’s started turning up at Pension PlayPen coffee mornings, which has made us very happy, as John’s deep knowledge of markets is important … Continue reading
Thames Water shareholders write down to zero, how did it come to this?
This week, we heard that Pension Fund OMERS, which owns 31% of Thames Water has written the value of this holding to £ zero. We expect other shareholders including the UK’s USS pension scheme which owns c 20% – to … Continue reading
Decisive action needed on Thames Water now.
Travel a mile east of Windsor and you get to Datchet, on the one side of the river are the grounds of Windsor Castle, on the side pictured is the road to Old Windsor, this picture is taken pretty … Continue reading
Hunt’s right; tax should incentivise us savers to boost Britain.
Cash ISAs are strange. They are supposed to encourage long term saving but are used as a tax-shelter for higher rate tax-payers who have large amounts they do not want to invest – for the long-term. The Chancellor is now … Continue reading
Thames Water – do consumers take priority over bond and shareholders?
This blog is about the competing interests for the long-term revenues of Thames Water. JP Morgan have furnished the FT with a chart showing who owns what at Thames Water. It shows USS owning 9.1% of the equity , though … Continue reading
Long term asset returns (a picture tells a thousand words)
A picture tells a thousand words, my blogs are a thousand words long. So I’ll leave this one at that.
Time for the FCA to review its DC lifestyle guidance ?
Thanks to James Farr of Aviva for helping me out with the FCA’s most recent pronouncements on pension lifestyling. James and I worked together at Zurich some 20 years ago and it’s great to know compliance experts at a time … Continue reading