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Doesn’t pension freedom extend to Defined Benefits?
The debate about the assumptions we use to decide the state of our defined benefit schemes is in full swing. On the one hand you have those, like John Ralfe who use an approach which ensures that there’s always enough … Continue reading
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Tagged DB, defined benefit, Derek Benstead, first actuarial, Freedoms, Guarantee, John Ralfe, pensions, PPF7800, Rob Hammond, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Calm down – calm down! Pensions are in better shape than “they” think.
Some weeks ago , Anthony Hilton, finance writer for the Evening Standard, used his common sense to question whether the deficit emerging at the Daily Mail Pension Trust (DMGT) was real. The pensioners he represented did not seem any more … Continue reading
DB Deficits- the real story; the Pension Regulator blogs.
TPR have gone social and set up its own blog; this is blog #1 from Policy Head Andrew Warwick-Thompson. Well done to the tPR and well done to Andrew for this nugget of optimism about Britain’s DB plans. Looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Warwick-Thompson, Blog, Deficit, first actuarial, Media, ppf, TPR
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Would you work with a robot?
Technology’s all very well till it bites you in the bum. Imagine Beth, Sally, Fiz and Sean facing up to a robo-panty stitcher in Underworld. If you don’t watch Coronation Street – Underworld’s Weatherfield’s top employer – thoughtNetflix appears to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornonation Street, financial education, first actuarial, Payroll, pension, pensions, Underworld
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Why we don’t have health-based pension transfer values.
A Coleridge moment in the City I walked into a church at the bottom of Bow Street yesterday afternoon to have a cup of coffee. Slumped over his laptop, deep in thought, I saw a friend… He awoke from a statistical revery and stared … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, de-risking, ETV, first actuarial, James Smith, pensions, Pie, Pie exercise, Transfer values, TV
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“Monkeys redundant” -Con Keating gives the IA a proper kicking
The following blog is printed with the kind permission of Con Keating and relates to recent blogs on this site “the charges of the light brigade” and “searching for the Loch Ness Monster“ The strapline to the press release … Continue reading
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Tagged Benchmark, charges, Con Keating, costs, Fees, first actuarial, Governnace, investments, monkey league, Monkeys, pensions, stock lending
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Probably the best administrator in the world
I don’t mean to crow , but I’ve just had this email from Chris, the lad some call the office boy. Good Afternoon I am trying to keep track of all my work and by doing this we have … Continue reading
Quality Assurance from First Actuarial
Sometime you need a job done well, for me it tends to start with water pouring through a light socket after someone left the bath-tap running upstairs! A lot of the time we’re called in to do some financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial, First, first actuarial, IFoA, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, pension, pensions, QAS
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Getting to financial self-sufficiency
I’m fascinating by the different ways in which people learn things -especially by the way that the internet has made it possible for people to become expert in quite difficult things in a very short time. Of course there … Continue reading
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Tagged educate, Empower, Engage, financial education, Financial literacy, first actuarial, literacy, self suffeciency
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