Tag Archives: Statistics
So how’s DC consolidation actually going?
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
#COVID-19 Actuaries on Deaths, Excess deaths and the Government’s use of statistics
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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Tagged COVID19, Deaths, Excess Deaths, Government, Statistics
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Why can’t we talk about investment returns?
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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Tagged actuaries, auto enrolment, FCA, Performance, Risk, Statistics, workplace pension
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Lies, damned lies and trade body PR – Robin Powell
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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Tagged Con Keating, Damned Lies, Investment Association, Lies, Pension Plowman, Robin Powell, Statistics
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The growing epidemic of stats misuse
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
Posted in actuaries, Martin Lewis, Music, pensions, Trades Union Congress, Treasury
Tagged Harvard University, Journalist, Math, Nate Silver, New Zealand, SpongeBob SquarePants, Statistics, United States
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