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Tag Archives: Discount rate
The £1 Trillion Gain From Dumping Pension Convention
You wait ages for one to come along then two come along at once. Not buses, but reports disrupting established thinking on how we value pension liabilities. Nikesh Patel, Head of Investment Strategy UK & Maya Beyhan, Investment Strategist at Kempen Capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Discount rate, Fab Index, FABI, gilts plus, Kempen, pension, pensions, Superflat, valuation
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A suffocating man craves the foulest stench.
Such is the pressure on trustees and sponsors of our defined benefit schemes to appear solvent, that they welcome the transfer of their potential pensioners to “cash” as a suffocating man breathes fetid gas. It is within the capacity of … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, CETV, defined benefit, Discount rate, suffocation, transfers
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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
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Tagged CETV, commutatoin, conract, Discount rate, tax free cash, transfers
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Transfer heaven or transfer hell?
Saturday kitchen’s binary dilemma informs on the “stampede” for a defined benefit transfer value (CETV). Those who still have this option have been offered as much as 40 times the prospective pension as cash payable to an approved pension. With … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Discount rate, FABI, heaven, hell, IFA, pensions, transfer-value
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This is Liverpool – this train terminates here
Another restatement, the gravy train has hit the buffers. Continue reading
