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Tag Archives: parliament
The inquiry into LDI moves apace as L&G’s summoned to parliament
The chief exec and chair of L&G, one of the UK’s largest pension providers, will this week appear before a UK parliamentary committee probing the use of #LDI strategies by #pension schemes.https://t.co/XLRMqqftNr — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) November 21, 2022 Days … Continue reading
Bob Compton speaks out on Pension Funding
Bob Compton MD of Arc Benefits is quietly spoken but an acute listener. He wrote to me yesterday this mail which provides a fascinating insight into the debate over how we fund our open and closed DB schemes and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Benefits, Bob Compton, Guy Opperman, parliament, Pensino Schemes Bill, TPR
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Snowden’s proposal for an amnesty for the pension liberated.
I was pleased to read Margaret Snowden’s measured call for an amnesty for those scammed through pension liberation schemes , commonly sold in the early years of this century. The evidence appears as part of the inquiry into pension scams … Continue reading
#WASPI – did we fail in our duty of care?
The WASPI debate that will happen tomorrow is of some significance. Not only will parliament be debating the particular circumstances of a particular group of women, they will be deciding whether the duty of care Government has, to keep its … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, WASPI
Tagged DWP, Government, parliament, pension, Retirement, state pension, state retirement age, WASPI
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The Public Accounts Committee on Auto-Enrolment – (tweets on DWP/tPR and NEST)
I’m not sure a blog has ever been written around one person’s tweets of an event, but Jo Cumbo’s online reporting of the Public Accounts Committee’s session on auto-enrolment is so excellent that I thought to hand over to her … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Ato-enrolment, DWP, ft, jo cumbo, NEST, parliament, pubilc accounts committee, TPR, tweeps, twitter
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Parliament debates CDC -with a twist in the tail!
If you are generally interested in the way Britain will develop private pensions in the next twenty years, I would strongly recommend watching the two sessions of the General Committee reading the Pension Schemes Bill, The link to the video … Continue reading
It’s not just pension taxation that’s changing- products are!
Pension PlayPen’s Submission to the Parliamentary Committee reading the Pension Schemes Bill Continue reading
Using your pension as a bank account.
Those “waking up to money” or to headlines in selected media (ahem!) will be gasping over their croissants at the headline. Is this a further raft of legislation ? You’ll be pleased to hear it isn’t! It is in fact … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, NEST, pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Bank account, Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, Osborne, parliament, Payroll, pension, Pension Bill, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension.Bank, Pensioner Payroll
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Imaginary terror exposed
The decision by the House of Commons not to agree (even in principle) to Britain’s military intervention in Syria was surprising and uplifting. There will be three immediate consequences. 1. We will not open yet another front on the war … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Consolation, Syria, welfare
Tagged Cameron, chemical weapons, Hague, parliament, Syria, terror, terrorism, war
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