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Pensions at a policy crossroads?
Headlines like this are a bit shouty and the event I went to yesterday afternoon was not shouty at all. In fact it was very good. A privilege and a thankyou I am not a client of “Hogan Lovells” and … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, annuity, auto enrolment, corporate governance, DWP, Financial services, Government, HL, Hogan Lovells, pension, Pensions, Retirement
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Virgin Media – what was all the pension fuss about?
There has been a lot of hot air expended and I fear a lot of money spent by trustees, scheme managers, lawyers and actuaries working out whether a DB pension scheme is invalidly changing things because it failed to do … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Actuarial certificate, contracting out, Pensions, Virgin Media
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Compact or Mandate – is Government violating our pension’s property rights?
Josephine Cumbo is running a thread on Linked in which is an interesting take on this country’s view on the Government’s intervention over how investment in pensions should have a bias towards UK stocks and in particular growth stocks likely … Continue reading
DB Pension Scheme Transaction Transparency and Scrutiny – Baker Hughes (2)
I’m a words man. William McGrath is a numbers man, I think we are both humanists, we value human happiness over corporate profits. So William has responded to my well read blog this week about Baker Hughes’s inhumanity with this … Continue reading
Please pay a reliable pension and allow us to choose to spend or save it!
Professionally I am interested the wage feel is coming in when age changes their lives. That is why I called my company AgeWage though I have a less serious company called Pension PlayPen which considers while messing around, what can … Continue reading
Playing the second half of the pension game with “defaults”
“Making sure more employers and savers have the option of an innovative CDC pension scheme is an important part of making that happen.” It would be easy for an enthusiast like Henry Tapper to argue for a CDC future , … Continue reading
The menace of BRITE to our pensions
A few months ago , I started an article on Brite Advisors, a firm that was becoming notorious for losing people money. I stopped writing the article but I didn’t forget about Brite. A few days ago, my correspondent in … Continue reading
Australians ask “Has the UK been successful with digital advice?”
It is sometimes salutary to read the thoughts of Australians on the UK. They address complex ideas simply and their view of the UK is rarely “rose tinted”. In a recent article, Laura Dew, a British journalist living in … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Alex Hore, Australia, Laura Dew, Optima pensions, Pensions, robo-advice, Stephen Huppert
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An actuaries guide to skipping “fast track” (what capital backing can do for your pension)
For an organization that I have no hope of ever joining, I get a lot out of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and yesterday they came up with another document that went straight into my reading tray. It will … Continue reading
“Insurers don’t understand investment”- that is the pensioner problem
Many comments on my blog are so well argued that they should be published as blogs in their own right, rather than languish in the obscurity of the archive! Some comments go unpublished but all are welcome (other than the … Continue reading