Tag Archives: CETV
Transfer values – Con Keating sees a comedy of errors!
This blog is from the pen of Con Keating There has been a spate of requests for quotations of transfer values from DB schemes and much publicity given to some of the more public figures who have taken … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, pensions
Tagged CETV, commutatoin, conract, Discount rate, tax free cash, transfers
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Con Keating on the real cost of pension transfers
Imagine buying a bond at par, say a ten-year, ten-percent coupon issue; then let five years pass, when market interest rates decline to one percent. At this time, the bond is trading in the market at £143.68 percent. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Pension Freedoms, pensions, Retirement, trustee
Tagged Bond, CETV, Con Keating, ppf, Transfer, TV, valuation
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Let’s put an end to pension transfer privilege.
“Sexy cash” legitimised? A few years ago , Sir Steve Webb, then our pension minister, stood in front of the PLSA and berated Boots and its pension scheme for tempting members out of the pension scheme with cash incentives. He … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged CETV, Critical yield, DB, dc, defined benefit, Defined Contribution, IFA, Philip Green, transfer advice, transfers
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Five moral reasons I didn’t take my DB transfer.
Jo Cumbo (my journalist of the year) has finished 2016 with a fascinating article on what (her sub editor?) describes as “a stampede to cash in gold-plated final salary schemes“. I felt angry – a little bit “dirt” when I’d … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged CETV, Drawdown, final salary, gold-plated, IFA, market, mumbo jumbo, pensions, wealth manager
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Why pensions should become a big government obsession in 2o17!
In my article yesterday, I suggested we don’t need to change pension regulations, we need to stop looking at pensions as a threat but as a benefit. This applies to auto-enrolment too- where employers are not engaging with pensions, … Continue reading
How do we manage the baby-boomers “huge” pensions?
The idea that £1m is a cap on huge pensions , beyond which we pay penal tax rates, is ludicrous. In answer to a question on this blog, I did some simple sums. Here first is the answer Nicholas, a … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged advice, CDC, CETV, cost of advice, DB, Drawdown, pensions, phased drawdown, Third way
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“The pension transfer lottery” – thoughts from a PlayPen lunch.
At a consumer level, the absurdity of pension deficit volatility, seemed to me abstract and notional. But yesterday’s Pension Play Pen lunch changed that. One of our party reported that the value of his cash equivalent transfer value (CETV) changed … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, CETV, pension, Pension Transfer, regulation, TPR, Transfer
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Why some transfer values are (ridiculously) high.
A cash equivalent transfer value (CETV) is a right of anyone in a defined benefit pension scheme. The following explanation is taken from the Pensions Regulator’s website. A CETV represents the expected cost of providing the member’s benefits within the … Continue reading
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Tagged Border Wall, CETV, DB, defined benefit schemes, pensions, Ros Altmann, Trump
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Pension Transfer Offers – should you take yours?
I urge you to listen this excellent podcast (skip to 1 minute to avoid the ad). It’s led by Jo Cumbo and has the thoughts of a couple of IFAs (who I don’t know). At 13 minutes long it … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged CETV, fit, healthy, pensioner, pensions, Tax, Transfer, transfer-value
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