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You want to know the difference between RPI and CPI – from an expert?
Sometimes twitter just says wow! This is one of those times! Oh this is excellent. I mean seriously excellent. @TheActuaryMag @ProfPensions https://t.co/aJluICOIdk — Mike Harrison (@HigherEdActuary) May 12, 2017 Response to Department for Work and Pensions consultation on Security … Continue reading
More FAKE NEWS on pension deficits #FABI
The Government’s just published its green paper ‘Security and Sustainability in Defined Benefit Pension Schemes’. It’s already generated knee-jerk headlines claiming 11m employees could see their pensions cut. The green paper refers to “under-funded schemes” and “stressed employers”, but can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged DB, Deficits, defined benefit, FABI, fake news, first actuarial, Green paper, pensions, sustainability
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5 Things I want from today’s DB Green Paper
The DWP is due to publish its Green Paper this morning. It’s an important initiative; -our defined benefit schemes are under threat but they have the potential to do much good not just to those in them, but to those who … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, conditional benefits, DB Green Paper, de-risking, DWP, Green paper, guarantees, pension playpen, pensions, Richard Harrington
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How mean is my valley? Why have we given up on pension prosperity?
Britain is one of the great economic powerhouses of the world. We are a strong nation that should be most confident in ourselves and our capacity to manage our own future. In the past few days we have seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, DB, defined benefit, FABI, first actuarial, Funding, Green paper, pensions, PLSA
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When will these taxation nightmares end?
The ludicrous complexity around the 2016/17 rules for the pension annual allowance, are only part of the story! Add to them , the extraordinary complexity surrounding the use of Pension Input Periods and you have manna from heaven for pension tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Consultation, Green paper, HMRC, nightmare, pension nightmare, Taxation
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We won’t reinvigorate workplace savings like this
This paper has the watermark of a Department, Government and Minister that has run out of steam. Time to reinvigorate the DWP. Continue reading
Coalition – come clean on your plan for our pension.
My criticism of the Green Paper is that while it is long on philosophising on the impact of longevity, the need for fairness and for personal responsibility, it’s short on idntifying the winners and losers in the process.
Posted in NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Consumer price index, Flat rate, Green paper, Hargreaves Lansdown, Means test, National Employment Savings Trust, National Insurance, NEST, Nick Clegg, Outsourcing, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Personal pension scheme, State Second Pension
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Pension Playpen lunch- the new consensus
Next lunch is Monday December 6th- same place but we’ll be doing a Christmas special. Continue reading
