"A couple might scrape together a combined private capital base of £240,000 provides only around £9,600 to £11,000 per year…
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…
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How proud of private UK pensions can we feel?
Torsten Bell has pointed out that people don’t have a high view of pensions and by extension the people who run them. Richard Smith and Torsten (and me) have something in common here. Continue reading
Men should acknowledge the gender gap is two ways (Richard Smith does)
This is the last of a series of posts from Richard Smith which I’ve been enjoying all week. You seem to have been enjoying them too. Continue reading
Imagine posters on your train advertising the pensions dashboard
It’s not so impossible, it’s happening in Germany and it could be happening on your train – but not if you’re coming back from #PensionsUKAC26 Continue reading
Richard Smith’s hopeful – as Guided Retirement is coming.
Richard Smith’s hopeful – as Guided Retirement is coming. Continue reading
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Ask Govt. what is the change cycle – asks Richard Smith to #PensionUKCA26 today
Please can someone ask Oliver about this when he’s on stage at 12:40pm today, then post his answers in Comments – thx Continue reading
An Eiffely fun video from Richard Smith on the Pension Dashboard
So Richard is putting together his best clips to provide an alternative view of the Pensions Conference, the one he (and I) would have liked to have gone to! Continue reading
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What we’re going to love about the pensions dashboard – Richard Smith
This week we will remind those there with institutional hats about ordinary people . This time what we are going to love most about the Dashboard. Continue reading
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Richard Smith’s Free Coffee Morning link is here! 10.30 this morning
Why is he being called into every conversation? It’s because he is an unbiased commentator on the state of pensions, of the pension dashboards and of how we will be getting a lifetime income when we retire. Continue reading
Richard Smith’s everywhere but nowhere more accessible than tomorrow at 10.30 am!
Even when Richard’s not there in presence he seems to be there in spirit! I’ve listened to 90 minutes of the VFM podcast where he gets more mentions than Arsenal. Continue reading
Pension people- lets elevate our thinking to ‘consumer level’
To state the bleeding obvious, we should be offering consumers a better retirement income forecast than we do today. Continue reading
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The image of pension professionals putting on their stout boots to face the snow is a good reminder that preparation…