Tag Archives: John Ralfe
We can’t reopen closed railways or pensions – but we can build anew
How does #CDC help the individual saver in a falling market as you claim….? @henryhtapper https://t.co/PbsnbcXwku — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) December 26, 2018 When I wrote this blog on Boxing Day about “coping with falling markets” – I did not … Continue reading
Do academics have special rights of pleading?
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work. It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Academics, John Kiff, John Ralfe, peer review, Politics, USS
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Financial Economics = Scorched Earth
John Kiff rolled his tank onto my lawn this morning. Well he can roll it off again and take his flamethrowers with him. For in the long march back from Moscow, Kiff, Ralfe & Co are doing their best to … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged CDC, Financial economics, John Kiff, John Ralfe, pensions
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Keating on Ralfe, CDC and morality
Last week’s Corporate Advisor’s Pensions Summit featured a debate on the merits of CDC pensions. Johan Ralfe presented the “case” against the introduction of CDC. In the main, with all the showmanship of Barnum and Bailey, this resurrected old and … Continue reading
Other ways of doing CDC
It’s great when you wake up – turn on your phone and get a really great couple of messages! This is what happened this morning to me Last night John Ralfe had been asking me where I felt CDC … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged actuaries, Australia, CDC, Falco Calkenberg, Holland, Jeremy Cooper, John Ralfe, pension, pensions
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The human cost of marking our pensions to the market
The debate at the CSFI mid week between Norma Cohen and John Ralfe on one side and Jon Spain and Dennis Leech on the other – seems to have focussed on the economics of pensions. I’d like to widen … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Popcorn Pensions, workplace pensions
Tagged CDC, CSFI, DB, dc, John Ralfe, Mark to Market, Norma Cohen, pensions
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CDC guarantees nothing! If that freaks you out – CDC is not for you!
It being early on a Sunday morning, the coots playing around Lady Lucy and a wind rustling through the willows, I’m minded to turn my mind yet again to John Ralfe’s queries on CDC. Ok clever clogs. 10 easy #CDC … Continue reading
“All based on FE” – 120 seconds of Ralfey trip-hop
John Ralfe is a very clever man. He is a Financial Economist. What he says and does is “all based on FE”. His brain is so big and his beard so perfectly cut that he has spawned a RalfeBot. RalfeBot is his … Continue reading
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Tagged All based on FE, Bazooka, FE, Henry you're an idiot, hitler, Idiot, John Ralfe, pensions
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The Financial Scientologists
Paul Lewis is absolutely right in attacking the dogmatism that religion creates. People may be spiritual, without imposing their views on others, but when someone’s dogma overtakes their sense of humanity, they become strangely inhuman. This is what accounts … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, Bankers, pensions
Tagged Infrastructure, John Ralfe, Malvolio, Paul Lewis, pensions, Scientology, USS
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Here be dragons – Z59; Con Keating
Many of the opponents of CDC pensions have argued that, if introduced, they should be tightly regulated, as they are “untried and untested”. Some have even suggested that the Dutch system of regulation, with its stochastic models, risk buffers and … Continue reading