Tag Archives: Stock market
Who’ll win this Pension Referendum?
We are about to have a pensions referendum. Votes will be cast not at the ballot box but through an obscure process known as “the opt-out“. Over the next five years , more than 5m people, around 20% of the … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Civil service, Government, Insurance, pension, Steve Webb, Stock market, Telegraph, William Hill
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SHOULD INVSTORS BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT?
This is the question we’ll be debating at today’s pension play pen lunch. I’m a little daunted . I’ve read Professor John Kay‘s excellent paper about how equities work, should work and why they could work better. He’s in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, corporate governance, FSA, happiness, pensions
Tagged Business, City of London, Economic, Financial intermediary, Financial services, Investing, John Kay, Stock market
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Unexpected risks – people just don’t get pensions (education).
We’re all aware that investing in the stockmarket is a “risky” business, it’s easy to understand how the sharp falls in stock markets impact on your savings and as stock market falls are the staple of media reporting, it’s not surprising that … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Bankers, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, FSA, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Financial services, Government Actuary's Department, Holborn, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Solvency II, Stock market, Sunday Telegraph
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You can’t buy a sausage with a brick
Abe Bacchus, the guy who taught me to sell life insurance in 1984, used this great phrase when a prospect objected to creating a “capital reservoir” for the future. Of course a geared investment into bricks and mortar over the … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, NEST, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, de-risking, Economics, Equity release, housing market, Investing, Life annuity, LV (company), moneysavingexpert, NEST, pension, Retirement, Society, Stock market
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Yes – things are this bad in DC land!
We all know that equity markets have sent the value of our pension savings into free fall and some people understand that low prospective interest rates mean the amount of pension you can buy from your savings has fallen lower. But did … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, Economics, Financial services, Forbes, Free fall, Insurance, Life annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, Open Market Option, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, Reasonable person, Retirement, Saving, Society, Stock market
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Nuts traced as market collapses – @ #ppshow
£64bn fell off the shares of the London stock market today. Meanwhile we were holed up in the Excel Centre, listening to the views of the great and the good.. Here are my good buddies Colin Wilson and David Harris. It … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, de-risking, pension playpen
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Business, Colin Wilson, corporate governance, corporate risk, David Harris, de-risking, Economics, England, ExCeL London, Investing, London, OECD, Olympic Delivery Authority, Olympic Games, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pension new, pension playpen, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds
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There are better ways to de-risk than ETVs
The only pension schemes which you cannot transfer out of are the Basic State Pension, State Second Pension and NEST (yes – odd that a DC plan is in that mix). Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, Retirement
Tagged bribery act, Cash, Compensation & Benefits, corporate governance, corporate risk, customer service, Daily Mail, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, Defined contribution plan, EU Solvency II, Human Resources, KPMG, Liability Driven Investment, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, NEST, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Politics, Retirement, Society, State Second Pension, Stock market
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