Tag Archives: Shell
The scandal of our “DB capitulation” to “de-risking”.
Meg Baynes’ piece in the Times which I featured on this blog is beginning to get some traction around the world Astounding. I think because investment literacy is so low in the UK and saving-via-homebuying is so embedded, people don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged British Airways, BT, CDC, de-risking, LDI, Pensions, returns, Shell, USS
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Is Shell De-risking or De-stroying its pension good will?
I’ve been outing poor practice at the BP DB scheme. It may just have become too big for the insurers but it hasn’t woken up to the advantage of running on. Now the champion Beverly Ord has brought to my … Continue reading
BP, Shell , Hewlett Packard – Parliament is watching the way you treat your pensioners.
Thanks to Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys (a BP heartland) for securing a 90 minute debate on private pensions. Despite an attempt late in the debate to hi-jack the debate by Therese Coffey, this was not … Continue reading
BP, Shell , Hewlett Packard – Parliament is watching the way you treat your pensioners.
Thanks to Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys (a BP heartland) for securing a 90 minute debate on private pensions. Despite an attempt late in the debate to hi-jack the debate by Therese Coffey, this was not … Continue reading
Anger at corporate scrooges grows
A pension is for life – not just for Christmas, but it would be well to think of the corporate misers who fail to share their windfall pension surpluses with staff as Scrooges. Patrick Hosking in the Times writes on … Continue reading
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Tagged 3M, Amex, BP, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, pfizer, Shell
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Shell’s failure to keep its pension promise appears in the public domain Paddy Briggs
The senior management of Shell is used to dealing with criticism – enormous profits, high levels of remuneration for top executives and continuing criticism of their environmental record and plans come with the job. But this story on UK … Continue reading
My ethics are my own
I appear to be under fire on twitter for claiming I am investing ethically by purchasing units in the LGIM FutureWorld fund. I am aware that this fund is not strictly an ethical fund and that my investment isn’t an … Continue reading
The demise of Pan-European-Pensions
This blog was prompted by reports that Britain is fast withdrawing QROPS status to many of our European partners. A Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme, or QROPS, is an overseas pension scheme that meets certain requirements set by Her Majesty’s … Continue reading
How Shell announced the closure of its DB Scheme to members
UK Retirement Benefits Review – 2011 December 2011 This update is primarily aimed at employees of the Member Companies of the Shell Contributory Pension Fund (SCPF) and Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund (SOCPF) who are members of those funds or … Continue reading
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Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Human Resources, Market trend, pension, Retirement, SCPF, Shell, SOCPF
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(S)hell’s well at Christmas
Popped into a Shell garage this morning – big sign tells me that I get 2 p off a litre if I buy a fourpack of Red Bull. I fancy giving a fourpack to my colleague and chum Peter Shellswell (real name) who survives on Morrisons own label energy drinks. … Continue reading
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Tagged Datsun, Energy drink, Gasoline, Litre, Morrisons, Pound sterling, Red Bull, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell
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