Tag Archives: OECD
Do they mean us? How others countries see UK pensions!
The late great Derek Jameson indulged us for a decade with facile but fascinating insights into how Johnny Foreigner viewed the Brits and ( when national self-esteem was low), we loved it! No matter how bad things were for us, … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, compulsion, David Harris, DCIF, Derek Jameson, OECD, pensions
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Pensions are dead – long live pensions!
The OECD have spoken – British workers will have worse pensions than folk from any other OECD country; this from Patrick Collinson in the Guardian. Workers in the UK will have the worst pensions of any major economy and the … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, dc pensions, Financial services, grave, Guardian, OECD, Patrick Collinson, pensions, Politics, Tax, Taxation
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Facing up to mental health
This article’s by our friends at Lockton. It’s on an important subject that impacts us all! I’m really pleased they’ve asked me to put it on this blog. It doesn’t surprise me that Nigel Wilson is pioneering work on this. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged GSK, Legal&General, Lockton, mental health, Nigel Wilson, OECD, Royal Mail
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Clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth!
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof! Clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth! Clap along if you know what happiness is to you! Clap along if you feel like that’s what you … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Government, Happiness, Happy, Lewis Hamilton, money marketing, OECD, pension, pensions, Pharrell Williams, Retirement, Yeovil
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Le Pension Crisis est Arrivé
Image via Wikipedia PWC report today that the value of DC pension pots has fallen by 30% in the last three years. This Telegraph article gives the grim details. This is not a paper loss which can be reversed if markets recover, … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, NEST, OECD, pension playpen, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Bank of England, Channel 4, corporate governance, corporate risk, customer service, Cyberbury, dc pensions, de-risking, England, Fiduciary Management, Financial Assistance Scheme, John Hutton, moneysavingexpert, NEST, OECD, pension, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pensions, Public Sector Pensions, PWC, Quantitative easing, Retirement, RSA, Steve Webb
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PPF II -opening the door for a better DC
We are where we are – the social contract has been decided… not compulsion but impulsion; impulsion into a DC pensions model that relies on the markets to deliver a second tier of pensions. Our retirements will be funded from employer and employee contributions over a … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, OECD, pension playpen, twitter
Tagged annuity, Anti-submarine warfare, Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Financial services, Insurance, Interest rate, Japan, Liability Driven Investment, Life annuity, Market failure, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, OECD, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, Public Sector Pensions, Robin Ellison, Steve Webb, twitter
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“Our weapon is the camera”
Perhaps the measure of political control in Libya is calibrated by fear.
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Posted in Facebook, Libya, Middle East, OECD, social media, Syria, twitter
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, BBC, Cyberbury, Facebook, Government, Libya, Middle East, OECD, policing, social media, Society, Syria, twitter, United Nations, William Hague
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Nuts traced as market collapses – @ #ppshow
£64bn fell off the shares of the London stock market today. Meanwhile we were holed up in the Excel Centre, listening to the views of the great and the good.. Here are my good buddies Colin Wilson and David Harris. It … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Business, Colin Wilson, corporate governance, corporate risk, David Harris, de-risking, Economics, England, ExCeL London, Investing, London, OECD, Olympic Delivery Authority, Olympic Games, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pension new, pension playpen, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds
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The man from OECD says “guess”
It’s a sobering time for those involved in pensions policy and for those who are trying to advise companies and people in how to organises their finances to meet their retirement income needs. One thing people don’t want to do is guess. They … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Australia, Chile, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined contribution plan, France, Germany, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Politics, Retirement, Stock market index, United States
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