Tag Archives: Keating

Just, L&G, Aviva, USS and Hymans write to Reeves explaining how to finance UK growth

Keating and Aubrey told us how gilts could not do the job. Last September Thomas Aubrey and Con Keating highlighted the inanity of the Government’s plan to finance with gilts the growth needed for new towns and growth that is … Continue reading

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What makes a New Town “good” and how do we pay for them?

  This is the video of the discussion we had yesterday with Con Keating and Thomas Aubrey   The slides that accompany the video can be downloaded here or read from this slide share. This blog is the last in … Continue reading

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Clacher and Keating ask can pension funds revive Europe (and UK)?

A Response to: Europe’s investment challenge: can pension funds play a role? Iain Clacher and Con Keating This article was first published in IPE.  Keating remarked last week  “Given the positive vote in the German Parliament .. we have only … Continue reading

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Stop Bulk Transfer Waste : Recycle DB Pension Surpluses

“Pens down on risk transfers”, trustees and consultants urged at Mercer Conference.   At the Mercer Risk Transfer Conference (Tues 11/02)  in a debate with life insurers Rothesay and Just, Con Keating and William McGrath argued that bulk transfers are … Continue reading

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The video , the slides and the feedback on Con Keating’s data tour de force.

Though Dr Iain Clacher never quite made it onto the webcast, attendants of Pension PlayPen’s last webinar of the financial year were treated to the sombre tones of Dr Con Keating who talked us through the anomalies between data supplied … Continue reading

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LDI “episode” cost our pensions £166,000,000,000

An Analysis of the Pensions Regulator’s Review of impact on DB landscape following (the) LDI Episode: Part 2 This is the second of our blogs commenting on TPR’s Report to Work and Pensions Committee on LDI. The first can be … Continue reading

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Keating and Clacher; TPR’s take on the LDI episode

An Analysis of the Pensions Regulator’s Review of impact on DB landscape following (the) LDI Episode   A “short” blog from Iain Clacher and Con Keating       As TPR’s Report is 58 pages long, we are going to … Continue reading

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Bad data leads to poor regulation – NB-TPR

The commentary in the embed is a 17,000 word – 33 page – document with no pictures, jokes  or cheap jibes. In short – it is written for people who have a serious interest in the governance of DB pensions … Continue reading

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The Costs of LDI – Keating and Clacher

Iain Clacher and Con Keating The ONS has just published its Financial Survey of Pension Schemes (FPFS) as of September 30th 2022. At the end of December 2021, the ONS reported net pension assets of £1,821 billion which was essentially … Continue reading

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“I’m all right, Jack” – LDI apologists get short shrift from Keating and Clacher

This blog is written in response to an FT article entitled “A different perspective on LDI”. We quote it in its entirety and respond after each quotation. LDI is very far from the light entertainment of an Ealing comedy. “It … Continue reading

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