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Lets stop kidding ourselves about pensions
Three things prompt me to write this article The work of Dr Iain Clacher and Con Keating into the unequal burden regulation places on the sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes The agreement between unions, Government and employers in the … Continue reading
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Posted in age wage, CDC, consolidation, pensions
Tagged CDC, Con Keating, Iain Clacher, Netherlands, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions
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Asset managers are no longer the problem on cost transparency
This is the first of ten articles by AgeWage co-founder Dr Chris Sier. All articles have first been published in the FT’s Pension Expert and are re-produced with its kind permission. The oritinal of this article can be found here … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, chris sier, Clearglass, Con Keating, pensions
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The other way to value DB schemes- Clacher and Keating.
DB scheme value Valuation – the long way round Our blog (May 28th) calling for a bonfire of pension regulation led to a surprising amount of interest and a wide range of questions and even some requests for expansion … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, de-risking, pensions
Tagged Car, Con Keating, Contractual accrual rate, DB, defined benefit, Iain Clacher, valuation
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“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
I am very pleased that Con Keating and Iain Clacher’s recent article has got so much attention , both in terms of readers and in terms of social media comment. Though I am one of those who thinks the Pension … Continue reading
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Posted in actuaries, Big Government, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Con Keating, David Fairs, Ears, Guy Opperman, Joe Strummer, John Ralfe, Matthew, ppf, TPR, Treasury
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Pensions need a bonfire of regulation – (Con Keating and Iain Clacher)
This essay is motivated both by the Pensions Regulator’s consultation on its proposed code of practice for scheme funding and by papers published in recent years by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, such as “Actuarial valuations to monitor defined … Continue reading
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Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, pensions
Tagged Con Keating, DB pensions, Iain Clacher, professional pensions
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Con Keating on “Risk and the Management of Investment Portfolios”
One of the few things that we know about risk is that it means that, over some future period, more things may occur than actually will eventuate. The role of an active asset manager is to seek to determine which … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Benchmark, Con Keating, Internal rate of return, IRR, pensions, Risk
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A Tale of Two Pension Plans : Randy Bauslaugh
This blog is based on remarks to the National Coordinating Committee for Multi-employer Plans, Miami, Florida, September 21, 2019.(Edited for Length.) I have the original transcript , supplied by Dr Con Keating and published by C.D. Howe Institute’s Pension … Continue reading
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Con Keating questions the value of “limited liability”.
It’s been a while since this blog has featured Con’s incisive thinking. This article calls into question the capacity of shareholders to have their returns and have someone eat the risk. There’s a lot of easy talk about the “governance” … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, ESG, Goodhart and Lastra, governance
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Keating on Ralfe, CDC and morality
Last week’s Corporate Advisor’s Pensions Summit featured a debate on the merits of CDC pensions. Johan Ralfe presented the “case” against the introduction of CDC. In the main, with all the showmanship of Barnum and Bailey, this resurrected old and … Continue reading
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Discount Rates and DB Pension Scheme Valuation: A history lesson from Con Keating
The question most frequently asked – “what discount rate should be used for valuing the liabilities of pension schemes?” – is problematic. Surprisingly, academics and practitioners have spilled gallons of ink, and exchanged more than a few uncivil words debating … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, DB pensions, Discount rates, liabilities, pensions
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