Tag Archives: Risk
Why We Should Not Gamble Away Our Retirement
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver (@deepa_driver on Twitter) has written this article in a purely personal capacity. Deepa is a former chair of UCU’s USS negotiation team (SWG). Her professional expertise is in governance, financial regulation and accountability. She is … Continue reading
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Tagged Conditional Indexation, DB, Deepa Govindarajan Driver, Deeper, Drier, Risk, risk sharing, UCU, USS
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England’s best pension academics aren’t English, here a dynamite young lady talking about risk!
A great video for those who couldn’t make this Tuesday’s session It was a good session of the Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning And it got a thumbs up from our presenter from Exeter University How good to hear academics from … Continue reading
Better pensions at no risk and no strain on cashflow? Why not – CFO?
I don’t often plug my blogs Once they are written I have moved on. But yesterday afternoon I had reason to talk with a friend who runs a way of helping defined benefits to stay running on and as … Continue reading
Are insurance companies getting it easy when taking on our pensions?
Pensions Oldie argues that risk management in the pensions world is radically different to that in insurance. Responding to an article where insurers themselves complain about the arrival of short term private equity money he comments. I don’t have … Continue reading
Expectations of “pay” from pension funds.
I have spent a wonderful couple of days with my mother in Dorset and while I have been away from work , I have been thinking about what we can expect from our retirement saving. What is the right … Continue reading
CDC’s risks are stacked against their funders
Would you invest your pension in a company that set up CDC schemes? I’m writing under the Chatham House rule which means I can only quote myself. Yesterday I sat on a 21 person Zoom call to discuss how CDC … Continue reading
To share risk – you must take risk; CDC’s current dilemma
“We have built it – why don’t you come?” This is the question I’d be asking , if I worked at the DWP. In a recent Laing Cat cast, Tom McPhail describes his trips to Caxton House where the first … Continue reading
Five questions for 2024 – not from me – from him!
Christmas is a time for giving, so I’m giving-up pretending I know what is going to happen to markets and handing my blog over to Robert Armstrong and his Unhedged team who provide me with a daily read that helps … Continue reading
Clara’s Party
Clara celebrated its first deal in style last night. The deal with Sears’ Pension Scheme is the proof of concept for superfunds but it a £31m boost for the 9,500 pensioners and deferred pensioners who otherwise had the eventual prospect … Continue reading
For grown up pension debate – you don’t need to go to Manchester
The CISI is running an event this Wednesday (25th October )which has the most extraordinary agenda and a magnificent speaker line-up that I doubt will be equaled this year. The debate the PLSA ducked Pensions has been one of … Continue reading
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Tagged CISI, Harriett Agnew, John Kay, Mervyn King, Pensions, Risk, Robert Laslett, SteveWebb
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