Tag Archives: David Hargreaves

Buying pensions with certainty need not cost the house

it’s time that the Government progressed its role as a partner in private provision, further than the tentative steps it has taken this parliamentary term. Continue reading

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Should we measure pension fees as “risk”?

This is simple measure which makes such fundamental sense that any fool can grasp it. Continue reading

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Playpen guru says its all our fault

In an astonishing outburst at today Play Pen London lunch, pedagogue David Hargreaves bit the hand that fed and claimed that the predicament at retirement was down to the financial services industry. Hargreaves, an actuary who trades as the pension … Continue reading

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The Play Pen’s golf day like no other!

Corporate Golf days are such formulaic affairs…the obligatory “bacon rolls before and ploughmans after”, the lager shandies, the accusations of banditry and the stories of the put that got away. Dull as ditch! And were this blog to concern itself with such nonsense … Continue reading

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