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Tag Archives: Local government pensions
In place of strife
As we contemplate the impact of industrial strife as the structural changes to pensions (and elsewhere) are rolled out, we need to be looking to the solutions that have worked. Perhaps this is one of them.
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Posted in pensions
Tagged AA, Centrica, Facebook, Government, Local government pensions, pensions, social media, unions
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The new consensus on when we can retire
It is only a matter of time for sponsors to have their Damascan moment and suggest to their trustees that a flexible retirement age is equally applicable to working practices and the payment of pensions Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, Government, Local government pensions, Longevity, Paul Sweeting, pensions, Retirement age
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Putting clients first- First Actuarial
You can’t get people lower down the corporate food chain to “treat customers fairly” if the customers aren’t the first priority of the people at the top.
I am weary of being weary of politics
Here error is all in the not done- all in the diffidence that faltered… Continue reading
Public sector pensions- who cares?
You don’t think public sector pension decisions matter? Take a look at your council tax bill -these things are bcoming second mortgages to many of us!
Public sector pension debt
How long before the ratings agencies catch up with us and require us to take action over our public sector pension debt? Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Treasury
Tagged ageing, Corin Taylor, Employment, finance, Government, Greece, IOD, Labour, Local government pensions, Longevity, pension, pensioners, pensions, Private sector, public sector, Retirement age, Salary, Treasury
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Can pensions find a unified voice?
There are no great and good anymore- the availability of information has meant a democratisation and demystification of the pensions hieirarchy. The information revolution has done for the pensions oligarchy what usury did for feududalism and it’s not taken 100 years, it hasn’t taken 100 months!
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What’s my “NEST” egg going to be worth?
While we continue to debate what a national savings scheme should be called, pensioners continue to shiver and the nation is no closer to a pensions solution for lower earners than when stakeholder pensions were first mooted 14 years ago. Continue reading
“I have looked over the cliff and I have seen DC”
It may have taken ten years but the precipitous drop to DC is now no joke. 2010 is likely to be a tipping point for many workplace pension schemes. Here are my personal predictions for the year ahead. Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged annuities, dc pensions, DGF, EU Solvency II, Facebook, Local government pensions, Pension new, pensioners, pensions, Personal Accounts, twitter
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I like annuities but I’m worried..
Imagine it- the prospect of a 15-20% pay cut for the rest of my life and all because the Government changed the rules. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged ageing, annuiteis, annuity, Bank, bulk annuities, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, gilts, Local government pensions, Longevity, longevity bonds, Pension new, Pension Pound, pension pounds, pensions, Pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement, Treasury, UK Treasury
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