Tag Archives: Brussels
Why I’m excited about second hand annuities.
Transparency is the great disinfectant, but disinfectant- when applied to an open wound- can be painful. It is however the only way we can recover. Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged annuity, Brussels, CDC, HArriet Baldwin, Phil Loney, Royal London, secondary annuity, solvency, Steve Webb, Treasury
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Brussels right on workplace pensions (shock)
Those clever folk in Brussels have come up with the idea of extending MIFID to cover UK pensions, says this article. My old chum Matthew Connell of Zurich is concerned that this might stop the sale of workplace pensions to … Continue reading
It’s not a capacity crunch it’s a traffic jam
the nature of the problem changes but the scale of the problem remains the same Continue reading
How was the Plowman’s vision? – 2012 #pensions predictions revisited
Here were our pension predictions from a year ago (you can read the full blog from December 2011- here) Artificially depressed interest rates drive up DB deficits and depress annuities but the pressure on life companies and pension schemes to adopt … Continue reading
NESToration – go boom in that Euro room!
If NEST had been a person Amnesty would have registered it a political prisoner. Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Change, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement
Tagged Brussels, Gregg McClymont, Joker, Standard Life
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NAPF Conference Report (from our man not on the spot)
My attempt to create a one man fringe event at the NAPF was short-lived and I spent the majority of the past 48 hours ensconced in various coffee shops and bars listening to Conference Reports from playpen cronies. The feedback … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, de-risking, napf, NEST
Tagged Brussels, Gregg McClymont, Jenny Davidson, Martyn Lewis, NAPF, Paul Lambert, pension, Steve Webb
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What’s in store for UK pensions in 2012?
Artificially depressed interest rates drive up DB deficits and depress annuities but the pressure on life companies and pension schemes to adopt Solvency II recedes as the UK distances itself from Brussels. The price of the settlement on public sector pensions is … Continue reading