Tag Archives: Public Sector Pensions

What NESTCorp is costing us

I wonder why NEST Corp’s own staff pension contributions cannot be accommodated within NEST , saving future member’s the burden of £3.6m pa in interest payments.

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A declaration of belligerence

Today (3oth June) is strike day. It is a general strike by a proportion of society that has seen total personal reward for its labours massively increase over the past fifteen years. The people who will be suffering are members of the … Continue reading

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“Buying a Retirement Income” from an RIP

I’m sure the panelled annuitants or Retirement Income Providers (hereafter known as RIPs) are feeling pretty comfortable about life this morning.

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Unavoidable, necessary and futile – the fight for public sector pensions

Because the unions only speak for those they define as their own – they do not speak for me – nor I for them. Continue reading

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Public sector strikes – the indeluctable modality

“the ineluctable modality of existence- it gets us every time”.
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Couldn’t have put it better myself

“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading

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What we can and cannot do (to provide our staff with better DC pension outcomes)

The Pensions Regulator has challenged us to establish what can practically be done for staff with DC pensions.
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Tell them the truth (a ridiculous notion)

However, it would lead to the kind of engagement between staff and retirement that is needed if we are to move forward from the current deadlock of distrust.

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The State can take longevity risk.

There is no evidence that the private sector has found the secret to insuring the cost of people living longer. It has merely found ways of insuring itself against the risks of ruin.
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Top 10 pension strap lines

We need to give pensions a better public image. Some say we should drop the word pensions, we say get real!

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