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Will pension schemes’ hunger for gilts return?
We had been warned, In February 2006 the Times ran an article that began THE headlong rush of British pension funds into already overpriced long-dated gilts was likened yesterday to trying to squeeze an elephant into a Mini. Tim Bond, … Continue reading
Care homes – the elephant is out the room
We can take as the roughest of approximations that the numbers dying in care or at home is about half of the number in hospitals. That would mean that the number who have died outside hospital by now (April … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Data, Death, elephant, residential care, Room Covid-19
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Pensions Deficits: Mark-to-market valuation is the elephant in the room
Following on from yesterday’s blog from Hilary Salt, here are some interesting thoughts from Dennis Leech, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Warwick You can contact Dennis directly at d.leech@warwick.ac.uk The chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, Deficit, Dennis Leech, elephant, Mark to Market, pensions, Warwick University
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