Everything that requires to be paid for the next 20-50 years requires investment. Non-investment types especially actuaries and other managerialists…
I don't know why you are all getting excited. In reality the likelihood is that the govt will cut pensions…
How far do you want to stretch the principle that compos mentis adults should not be treated as moral agents…
You're right, and Treasury have previous on this. Examples ... Netting at departmental / spending-review level Barnett is applied to…
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Should DC pensions give retirement freedom or a steady income?
This is not a new argument. we’ve been having it all century and in 2014 many thought it had been settled by George Osborne. But pension freedoms haven’t been a success for the silent majority Continue reading
Sunak needs Osborne’s rabbit and hat to win now!
Yesterday I reported that Rishi Sunak had drifted to 3-1 against while Liz Truss was 3-1 on Today’s news is that the odds have widened further A Sunak win is now promising nearly four pounds profit to a one pound … Continue reading
Downing Street’s three pension interventions this century.
Intervention one – The Turner Commission. It is useful from time to time to revisit the work of Adair Turner’s Pension Commission which first reported in 2004. 18 years on the generation it considered “young” are now approaching the “normal … Continue reading
The speech we should have heard in May
What struck me , listening to Theresa May’s speech to the diplomats last night, was how we could have done with this clarity before the vote. Six months is a decent period for “post-event rationalisation” and John Godfrey and … Continue reading
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Pump fake action!
Those familiar with basketball or gridiron, the popular American game they call football, will know about “Pump Fake Action”, it’s a move where a whole team shapes for a long and graceful passing pay, while intending to execute a … Continue reading
Back to business
It will be interesting, when the Pensions Regulator comes to publish its statistics, to see whether the past few days will represent a downward spike in engagement over auto-enrolment. Certainly our stats at Pension PlayPen suggest that less decisions … Continue reading
The great austerity experiment is over
Tucked away on my news feed is a report of a speech made in Manchester by the architect of “austerity”, George Osborne. For those of us who have enjoyed the prosperity that our economic recovery has brought, austerity may seem … Continue reading
Budget blues for Osborne – but not for payroll
This was a blue budget for George Osborne, one that promised much, and delivered little rather less than planned. Things started going wrong three weeks before Budget Day when the Treasury announced that it would not be pressing ahead with … Continue reading
If Osborne had stuck to his guns on pensions…
The Government is in the middle of a political not an economic crisis. The crisis began the morning the Times announced it would not be including radical plans to overhaul pensions in this year’s budget and it has deepened at each … Continue reading
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Britain unproductive? Small wonder!
“Now is not the time to change pensions tax relief”. The words of the Treasury’s press release that spelt the end of radical pensions reform (for now). Oh what an opportunity missed – and for what? To keep a party … Continue reading
I believe you are absolutely right and its polical expediancy to rob us of our State Pension. ounce again. That…