Tag Archives: ONS

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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Why are the over 50s not working so much?

Posted on November 15, 2022 by henry tapper

Work is becoming less rewarding but more of us are getting a paycheque than ever before. People officially unemployed is falling but the number of us out of the labour market continues to rise and this is particularly amongst those … Continue reading →

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15m have died from Covid – Covid ARG’s 66th report.

Posted on May 7, 2022 by henry tapper

Friday Report: Issue 66                                        www.covid-arg.com By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer and Matt Fletcher   COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. … Continue reading →

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What are our older workers doing?

Posted on March 2, 2022 by henry tapper

Last month , I wrote about the missing 600,000 over fifties who seem to have disappeared from the labour market. I was alerted to this by economist Tony Wilson and now he’s back, looking at the latest ONS Data on … Continue reading →

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How many people fund their own care?

Posted on October 16, 2021 by henry tapper

Some people complained last Saturday that I produced no blog, my blogs get done early in the morning and on Saturday I’m travelling early to my boat. So I need oven ready content and my good friend Con Keating served … Continue reading →

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Progress towards immunization; Covid-ARG’s weekend report

Posted on July 25, 2021 by henry tapper

                                                                                                      http://www.covid-arg.com Friday Report: Issue 48 By: Matt Fletcher, Adele Groyer & Dan Ryan COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence.   COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID‑19 … Continue reading →

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Govt. data shows the dynamism of Defined Contribution workplace pensions

Posted on April 1, 2021 by henry tapper

In the past two weeks, we have had two government reports on the shape of the UK funded pension market. The first – the Office of National Statistics report presents a snapshot of the entire DB/DC market last summer. It … Continue reading →

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