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ONS – bosses see pensions as “just a perk”, “taxation not covenant”.

Posted on April 22, 2025 by henry tapper

  The ONS has produced a revealing chart that the FT has improved. It shows that while employers are putting more into auto-enrolled workplace pensions, they are putting less into Defined Benefit pensions for a number of reasons (none of … Continue reading →

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The Office of National Statistics pension reports are for the young of this country

Posted on March 21, 2025 by henry tapper

This blog refers to an article by Mary McDougall published today and readable from this link.  A free read is on this link – if you a non-subscriber. If the free shares have run out, please contact henry@agewage.com . The … Continue reading →

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UK Life Expectancy Up but Below Previous Projections (says ONS)

Posted on February 19, 2025 by henry tapper

You can download this article from this link. We are living longer but expectations of just how fast the increase will be and how high have been over-estimated. Thanks to Pension Oldie who has sent me this information which I … Continue reading →

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Defined Benefit Pension Funding – Iain Clacher & Con Keating

Posted on January 14, 2025 by henry tapper

Defined Benefit Pension Funding Iain Clacher & Con Keating The article  appears in the Securities Institute Review which is the house magazine of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) It is here  In a range of conference presentations, … Continue reading →

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ONS data casts doubt on UK DB funding levels

Posted on March 22, 2024 by henry tapper

DB Pensions Data and Policy Analysis   Iain Clacher & Con Keating The new Funding Regulations laid before Parliament have an impact assessment which relies upon analysis provided by the Pensions Regulator (TPR). Similarly, the current consultation on options for … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 19, 2024 by henry tapper

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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DB pensions lose £600bn in a year!

Posted on June 23, 2023 by henry tapper

We’ve published new results from the Financial Survey of Pension Schemes (FSPS). Covering Oct to Dec 2022, this includes membership, income and expenditure, transactions, assets, and liabilities of pension schemes. ➡️ https://t.co/apyUkWp97j pic.twitter.com/nDllINbzQy — Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) … Continue reading →

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Are pension funding levels just too good to be true?

Posted on March 26, 2023 by henry tapper

Edi Truell’s question is one that this blog has been asking for a while now. When Dr Iain Clacher quoted a figure of £500bn as the loss incurred by UK pension schemes from interest rate rises at the Work and … Continue reading →

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The Costs of LDI – Keating and Clacher

Posted on March 25, 2023 by henry tapper

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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ONS numbers show how “de-risking” did for growth

Posted on March 24, 2023 by henry tapper

While most of us would see weight loss as a good thing, it can cause harm – especially when pursued fanatically. In this blog I look at latest Government figures and ask whether pension schemes are losing weight in the … Continue reading →

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