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Tag Archives: Pensions
The Costs of LDI – Keating and Clacher
Iain Clacher and Con Keating The ONS has just published its Financial Survey of Pension Schemes (FPFS) as of September 30th 2022. At the end of December 2021, the ONS reported net pension assets of £1,821 billion which was essentially … Continue reading
USS and Exhaustion – Con Keating
Shortly after it was published in early March by USS, I was asked to review their note “USS briefing: Capital funding and exhaustion risk – distribution of outcomes”. The stated reason for it was: “This briefing note provides details … Continue reading
ONS numbers show how “de-risking” did for growth
While most of us would see weight loss as a good thing, it can cause harm – especially when pursued fanatically. In this blog I look at latest Government figures and ask whether pension schemes are losing weight in the … Continue reading
CHRIS CURRY ON THE PENSION DASHBOARD – Pension PlayPen ; Tues 28th March
Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen Coffee Morning – Pension Dashboard delays! An update from MaPS CPD included Type – Online (+1Hr CPD) When – Tuesday March 28th, 2023 at 10:30am At our next event we are delighted that Chris … Continue reading
Boris Johnson could learn to answer questions from Laura Trott.
Yesterday brought the nation’s attention to the work of select committees, mainly due to the “grilling” of Boris Johnson by the Parliamentary Privilege’s Committee. It was hard not to notice just how professional that Committee behaved, how well briefed it … Continue reading
Playing politics with the state pension age?
Pensions are in the news again and the FT’s lead story today is about the State Pension Age. The State Pension is more newsworthy than any other pension because it dwarfs all others in coverage and in the impact … Continue reading
Macron wins his pension battle – can we win ours?
Last night , Emmanuel Macron won his vote – just. He survived two no-confidence votes.The no-confidence motion filed by a small group called Liot garnered support from 278 members of parliament in the National Assembly, falling short by … Continue reading
Politicised pensions become anti-social.
Rishi Sunak has been trying to explain the budget’s pension reforms to the BBC and he’s not been doing a good job of it. “This is about cutting waiting lists…we need our best doctors, our experienced doctors, we need them … Continue reading
Vive la differance – Britain and France’s approaches to state pension reform
“To finance our [pensions] system, which is among the most generous in the world, we must progressively ask those who can to work more” Vive la France, vive la réalité économique. https://t.co/cozeSGgEEQ — Mike Harrison (@HigherEdActuary) March 20, 2023 This … Continue reading
Do we need a cost and charges test to work out value ?
This is a long and involved blog but it deals with an important subject in a timely way. One of the perceived unfairness’s of DC rather than DB pensions is that DB pensioners have all costs paid by the … Continue reading