Tag Archives: Statistics

So how’s DC consolidation actually going?

Posted on January 29, 2023 by henry tapper

  The Pensions Regulator has published its 2022 to 202 DC trust: scheme return data  The two key images are the chart and table below. They talk to the consistent picture we have seen since this research and analysis began … Continue reading →

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#COVID-19 Actuaries on Deaths, Excess deaths and the Government’s use of statistics

Posted on July 20, 2020 by henry tapper

  For months the COVID-19 actuaries bit their lips, knowing that COVID-19 deaths were being under reported. It was in the pubic interest for them not to challenge Government. Now there appears to be a much smaller amount of over-reporting … Continue reading →

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Why can’t we talk about investment returns?

Posted on December 11, 2016 by henry tapper

  Investment performance has become a taboo – a “no go zone”. This suits the auto-enrolment agenda which is “comply or die”, but NEST has broken ranks and asked defaqto to publish comparative investment performance and it was right to … Continue reading →

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Lies, damned lies and trade body PR – Robin Powell

Posted on August 20, 2016 by henry tapper

Robin Powell is a thoroughly decent man with an interest in financial probity who happens to write very well, he’s picked up on a couple of blogs which have been on here and I’m happy to return the favour. Robin … Continue reading →

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The growing epidemic of stats misuse

Posted on February 17, 2013 by henry tapper

Hilary Salt is founder of First Actuarial plc. She is currently the Actuarial Post’s Actuary of the Year. Late in 2011 she was asked to contribute a piece to the Independent’s Battle of the Ideas. This is what she wrote . Twenty years ago, … Continue reading →

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