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…
Tag Archives: Super
I love the pair of glamorous grannies whose pots have turned to pensions!
Hats off to Aussie Friends for persevering, so that the these glamour grannies can depress the besuited business man! Continue reading
Aussie Supers see desertions by an entrepreneurial youth!
This is an interesting development in Australia with youngsters taking back control from their Supers. My thoughts below are those of a boring old fart. BOFs have their place! So what do we make of younger savers taking back control … Continue reading
Australia – together you can do it! Try collective saving for a Super Later Age!
This may be important for Australia but it’s important for Britain too. Thanks to Philip Clark and thanks to Jim Hennington for forwarding this to all of us on linked in. If there was an argument for converting a pot … Continue reading
So Donald Trump likes Australian’s “Super”? I wonder why?
Australia’s Not-So-Super Retirement System American Social Security reformers see a lot to like, but there are some aspects they shouldn’t seek to copy. Many of us in the UK came to this conclusion some time ago! By Samuel Gregg July … Continue reading
Aussie pensions find problems providing us with housing
After fire safety regulations in Britain were tightened following the 2017 blaze in Grenfell Tower, west London, Get Living had to set aside £337.5mn to pay for fire safety remediation works at the East Village. “The developers[the ODA] got the … Continue reading
Australians can’t seem to pay themselves the pension they have earned
The difficulty of getting people to pay themselves a pension is explained in this article. We’ve had this problem in the UK as well, though it’s not so obvious. People lose track of their pension pots and providers lose touch … Continue reading
Epic Retirement? Bec Wilson’s Tick means Value for Money
I’ve been speaking with Bec Wilson , who says she provides Edutainment, I like the sound of it. She’s speaking at the Pension UK October Conference. That will be knock-out She wants Australians who are a little more involved with … Continue reading
John Chilman – Running a big pension disruptively
I managed all 73 minutes of Nico and Darren’s VFM podcast featuring John Chilman while sitting on a South West Train. The podcast was more comfortable than the journey but both were too long! One of the “news story” in … Continue reading
What’s driving competitive flows in the Australian Super system
There are two ways of looking at Australian pensions. There is the politician’s view, which picks the Aussie policies that validate the UK pension policy agenda. Then there’s the view of the commercial operators – primarily the master trusts, who … Continue reading
Australia more than competitive on pensions
Jo Cumbo has written an important piece on what the UK can learn from the Australian pension system. The article is not written for the pensions industry but for the FT reader, a sophisticated type who can appreciate that there is … Continue reading
When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…