Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…
I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
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My five big challenges for twenty twelve
If I thought I’d be here twelve months ago I wouldn’t have bothered. I’d have gone straight to jail, not passed go and not collected my £200. I reckon most of us would have preferred to be on the subs … Continue reading
24 cheers for The Pension Play Pen Lunch
There’s a fine tradition in this country of people getting together in coffee houses and taverns and sorting out how and with whom business should be transacted. This was how the insurance market was founded in London and it still is how … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, Facebook, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged annuity, bribery act, corporate governance, corporate risk, Cyberbury, Debate, Employment, Facebook, Leeds, London, Lunch, mallowstreet, Manchester, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pensions, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, social media, yeovil town fc, YTFC
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Green shield stamps ( how to buy a pension)
Lawrence Churchill of NEST and John Hutton (of the report) spoke eloquently yesterday of the need for people to focus on a desired retirement outcome (for instance;-“I want an income of £15,000 pa”) work out what it takes to get it … Continue reading
Posted in customer service, de-risking, NEST, Retirement, social media
Tagged Book, Collecting, customer service, Cyberbury, de-risking, Fatherhood, Green Shield Stamp, John Hutton, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Recreation, Retirement, Saving, social media, Society, Stamps
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“Our weapon is the camera”
Perhaps the measure of political control in Libya is calibrated by fear.
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Posted in Facebook, Libya, Middle East, OECD, social media, Syria, twitter
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, BBC, Cyberbury, Facebook, Government, Libya, Middle East, OECD, policing, social media, Society, Syria, twitter, United Nations, William Hague
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Sharing stuff
I won’t be the first to remark on the polarisation of the business community between those who see the internet as a threat to their intellectual property (grounded) and those who regard collaboration as a means of creating a better world for … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, Facebook, mallowstreet, Martin Lewis, social media
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Cyberbury, Facebook, Intellectual property, Internet Marketing, linked in, mallowstreet, Marketing and Advertising, Martin Lewis, policing, Politics, social media, Society, Thomas Gray, twitter
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Can’t beat the NAPF!
As trade bodies go, the NAPF is pretty good. It starts from a good place, it wants people to get good retirement outcomes. It operates with the support of all the sectors of the pensions industry and it’s been doing its job … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, mallowstreet, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media
Tagged Business, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Government, Human Resources, mallowstreet, National Association of Pension Funds, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, social media, Trade association, trustee
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Linkedin Jungleland
It exists because of the same urge I had as a thirteen year old – I just wanted to get out more. Continue reading
Top bum ,sedition and Gadaffi the penguin
“What” , you might be asking, ” is going on here?”. Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged BBC, croydon, Cyberbury, Facebook, Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya, London riots, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Muammar al-Gaddafi, music, NATO, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, Sex Pistols, social media, Society, Tripoli, twitter
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Mittens- that wd stop em lootin
“More than 90,000 people have signed an online petition calling for anyone convicted of taking part in the riots to lose benefits they get” Thomas Hardy wrote a book of poems entitled “life’s little ironies”. He’d have seen the humour in … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Nick Clegg, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged Blackberry Messenger, Clapham, Facebook, Fatherhood, linked in, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Pirates of Penzance, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, social media, Society, Thomas Hardy, twitter
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“I just want to show the rich I can do what I want”
If that girl in Croydon and the thousands of disaffected rioters have done anything positive for me – they’ve got me thinking just how big the gap between me and them is. Perhaps I don’t feel quite as comfortable as I did a week ago.
Posted in Nick Clegg, social media
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bridge, Crime, croydon, Croydon, England, Hoodie, London, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Politics, Riot, social media, Society, Teresa May, twitter
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When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…