Tag Archives: Pension deficits

We shouldn’t have deficits , we shouldn’t have surpluses – we won’t with CDC!

The headline run by the FT out of the maligned OBR’s report on pension is that only £2.2bn of the £160bn surplus capital in UK DB pensions is going to be drawn down by companies from the occupational pensions they … Continue reading

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The Alice in Wonderland world of pension deficits.

FTSE grows, deficits up? The first business day of the month is pension horror month where JLT announce new angles on the disastrous state of our Defined Benefit schemes. Deficits actually fell last month but JLT still managed to report … Continue reading

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So who gave Mark Carney the keys?

Ros Altmann, along with many others is concerned that a side-effect of the measures announced to bounce our economy out of  Brexit blues, will be to require employers to pump money into pensions and not into jobs, research and building new … Continue reading

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