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Tag Archives: Sharon Bowles
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
Posted in Blogging
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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The mess we’re in (pt.1) and how we got here.
Iain Clacher and Con Keating Since their heyday in the 1990s, UK occupational DB schemes have been winding up at a rate of about one every two days. Their replacement, DC schemes, are a poor substitute; they are tax-advantaged savings … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions, trustee
Tagged Con Keating, DB, DB pensions, Iain Clacher, regulation, Roy Gopode, Sharon Bowles, TPR
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Lords say “no” to the “dumping” of open DB pension schemes!
This blog pays tribute to someone of whom I knew nothing but a couple of weeks ago but who has made an extraordinary contribution to UK pensions by means of what should be known as the Bowles Amendment. The Bowles … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, CDC, dc pensions, de-risking, DWP, pensions
Tagged CDC, DB, Liberal Democrat, pensions, Sharon Bowles
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