Aitken is most concerned with life insurers/assurers. Warren Buffett invested in non-life insurers for their distinctive economics, particularly the investment…
Agreed - though the contribution rates into private sector DB when we were accruing was often less than deficit payments…
my point is a simple one. Apart from DB pension provision in the U.K. is a disgrace Individual Median Pension…
It's a made up statistic and I'm sure AI would give you a different one but we need to accept…
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Can the private sector afford to pay inflation linked pensions?
Of course we do pay inflation linked pensions though corporate and personal taxes, we pay for the public servants to get full CPI linkage so their wage in retirement will go up with inflation without a cap, some still get … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, CPI, dc, increase, Inflation, Level, pension, Pension Dashboard, Retirement Wage, SMPI
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Do you really want to give us the nastiest hardest problem in finance – Steve?
I suspect that former pensions minister Steve Webb is annoyed by chapter 5 of the Pension Commission’s report this week. This is his comment on LinkedIn Here are excerpts from Steve Webb’s Times article published this morning. I know … Continue reading
The Pensions Minister involved in sorting Gavin’s salary sacrifice mix-up.
There is more to Gavin H’s story; here is the latest episode.
I give up on VFM for pensions and so does Guy Opperman, I like the guy!
I don’t suppose that former Minister Guy Opperman knew he would be reported at the Aptia conference yesterday. He works for them a couple of days a month and was delivering the kind of comments that would have gone down … Continue reading
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Pensions are a larger part of our wealth (IFS). Pension wealth is higher still under CDC.
I’m not a great fan of the Institute of Fiscal Studies who have found it hard to understand pension as “wealth” . But this report has taken a step in the right direction In this IFS report, pensions hold a … Continue reading
Getting money back from the tax man
I got in late the other night and checked my mail. There was an ominous brown envelope, the kind you get when they’re after you. I walked upstairs to my flat trembling and summoned up the courage to open it. … Continue reading
Is America a good place for insured retirement funds from Britain?
I am pleased to see Calum Kapoor and Mary McDougall working together on an article that looks at the taxation of overseas money invested in American assets. You can read it on a “free share” here. I profess to be … Continue reading
TPR’s new head of innovation has no experience of pensions?
It is certainly innovative to put someone who has no background in pensions in charge of TPR’s innovation. Here she is, commenting on her career progression. If I have space left in my tummy for another coffee, I will have … Continue reading
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A Pensions Mutual for a CDC.
It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading
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A Pensions Mutual which will launch a CDC Pension within a year
It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading
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"A couple might scrape together a combined private capital base of £240,000 provides only around £9,600 to £11,000 per year…