Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…
I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
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UK Insurance comes under more pressure from American Private Equity
Elsewhere, Blackstone, recent friend to L&G in helping fund the L&G buy-in/out deals- is turning to by-passing insurers altogether.. Continue reading
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Risk Transfer in decline as Pension Schemes find “risk” is “growth”.
The numbers predicted by Standard Life for insurers taking on DB assets and liabilities are well down on estimates at the beginning of this year. Trustees are seeing risk as growth and questioning further de-risking. There will come a time … Continue reading
When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…