Tag Archives: Sharon Bowles
Sharon Bowles and Ros Altmann continue to make sense with amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill
I agree with William Macleod. I agree with Sharon Bowles above and Ros Altmann below.
William MacLeod – sense on the Pension Schemes Bill and investment trusts
The debate on investment trusts/companies is not an easy one to follow, so it is good to have this man posting sensibly on a subject that matters.
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Tagged 'investment trusts, Investment companies, lords, Peers, Pension Schemes Bill, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles
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Why are investment trusts excluded from the Pension Schemes Bill?
William MacLeod Speaking in the House of Lords today during the Pensions Schemes Bill second reading both Baroness Ros Altmann and Baroness Sharon Bowles , asked a very simple question: Why have listed investment companies been excluded from the Bill? … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Employment, FCA, Financial services, Investment, Pensions, politics, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles, Treasury
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CCI consultation response and Listed Closed-ended Investment Companies (LCICs) – short explanation from Altmann and Bowles
The FCA has laid out its suggestions for the new Consumer Composite Investment Rules which will replace old EU law. The part we are addressing is the ongoing saga of misrepresentation of costs/expenses for Listed Closed-ended Investment Companies. The topic … Continue reading
LDI’s origin story is crucial to its future.
The question of how leveraged LDI came to become business as usual for DB pension schemes is raging at the Work and Pensions Committee. After a request from Committee Chair – Stephen Timms – the Pensions Minister has sent this … Continue reading
DB pensions are in a hole, let’s swap the DWP’s spade for a ladder
Bowles my liege… It’s a great shame to read Guy Opperman excising Sharon Bowles amendment to the Pensions Act. The Bowles amendment would give open pension schemes the capacity to be funded as ongoing concerns rather than being … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, DWP
Tagged Con Keating, Guy Opperman, LCP, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions, RailPen, Sharon Bowles
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What will be the Government’s pension agenda for 2021?
This article is about the DWP’s pension policy agenda and my view of what matters to the Pensions Minister and his department. Opperman has shown considerable leadership in recent years and my view is that he is in a strong … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Guy Opperman, Pension Dashboard, Pensions, ppf, Sharon Bowles, standards
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Clacher and Keating blog “Bowles to the Regulator”.
We have received and responded to over one hundred questions, comments and criticisms arising from them. Not one has come from the Pensions Regulator. We have no evidence that the Regulator is listening to us or anyone else. Constructive engagement requires constructive listening, not selective hearing. Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged Clacher, DWP, House of Lords, Keating, Pension Funding, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Sharon Bowles
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The Killing of Open Schemes – Michael Bromwich
Michael Bromwich has been the CIMA Professor of Financial Accounting at the LSE since October 1985 . He is the co-author of “Management accounting in a digital and global economy” and one of Britain’s authorities on the subject. His … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Funding, LSE, LTO, Michael Bromwich, Open Schemes, pensions, Sharon Bowles, TPR
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Prem Sikka’s peerage – its value to accounting , governance and pensions
Prem Sikka, too, is an appointment to be welcomed as strengthening the Lords pensions team. Read his monograph from 2006, “Pensions crisis a failure of public policymaking”, https://t.co/xBHu7dgVKJ. Chapter 2: THE PENSIONS CRISIS: FACT AND FICTION explains the valuation and… … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Accounting, Bryn Davies, Dennis Leech, ESG, House of Lords, pensions, prem sikka, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles
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