Tag Archives: doctors
Send in forensic actuaries to sort out these “rip-off” pensions!
Spookily, a couple of hours after I’d published yesterday’s blog about how the DWP had ducked the dodgy question of how to sort out legacy pension charges, Steve Webb, the Pension Minister issued an appeal to the pensions industry to … Continue reading
How sure are you that you’ll get your pension promise?
While large numbers of people, (the low-paid , young and the haitual self and unemployed) have never been in a company pension scheme, some 30 million of us in the UK have either a private pension in payment or have the prospect … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Retirement
Tagged Britain, Corporation, Defined benefit pension plan, doctors, Insurance, IOU, pension, PWC
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I’d pay for this woman to talk to my kids
I was blessed to be raised with financial education at the dinner table. That my brothers and would be financially confident was an obsession of my parents. We discussed interest rates at the table (whether we liked it or not) and were … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Education
Tagged Australia, Business, doctors, Employment, Financial services, Individual Savings Account, McDonalds, pension
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Self-serving nonsense from the City on LDI DC pensions
Apparently what the City would like to serve up to us to sort out our woeful DC pensions is a wonder drug called LDI. I read “with interest” that More than half of the pensions industry feels that the liability-driven investment techniques … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, doctors, Investing, Investment, LDI, pension, Schroders, Steve Webb
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Doctors are pension millionaires – so why are they striking?
My Dad’s a doctor and in retirement – he has a great pension and who can begrudge him it? He retired 25 years ago as a senior partner – on about one third of the final salary he’s be on today. Like him, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, BMA, British Medical Association, Canada, Defined benefit pension plan, Doctor (Doctor Who), doctors, Doctors (2000 TV series), Industrial action, London, National Health Service, pension, Price index, Private sector, public sector, Salary, Strike action, Tax, Telegraph
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