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Tag Archives: TPR
The Regulator’s not for turning; in conversation with David Fairs,
David Fairs and I were born within a couple of months and have both spent our careers in pensions. We enjoy each other’s company so when David suggested that we spent the last 90 minutes of the business week … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Blogging, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics, Public sector pensions
Tagged David Fairs, Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Are our pension schemes the treasury’s piggy bank?
Yesterday I published a series of tweets from Jo Cumbo on the difficulties the Pensions Regulator would have balancing the interests of members and sponsors with the interests of Rishi Sunak in getting schemes to invest in the nation’s infrastructure. … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged DB pensions, dc pensions, DWP, LTAF, Pensions, Rishi Sunak, TPR
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Cumbo asks “can pension schemes invest for social good and keep TPR happy?”
Rishi Sunak is keen to see pension schemes invest to get Britain to its climate change commitments. This week the Treasury set out its financial services policy which ended with a promise to encourage investment in long-term illiquid assets, … Continue reading
Bob Compton speaks out on Pension Funding
Bob Compton MD of Arc Benefits is quietly spoken but an acute listener. He wrote to me yesterday this mail which provides a fascinating insight into the debate over how we fund our open and closed DB schemes and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Benefits, Bob Compton, Guy Opperman, parliament, Pensino Schemes Bill, TPR
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CDC through but Nov 5th may see fireworks for Pension Schemes Bill
CDC sails through Today the Pension Schemes Bill will continue its reading in committee stage in the House of Commons. In sharp contrast to by its last outing in the Lords, we saw no fireworks- and certainly not the conflagration … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Bonfire Day, Fireworks, Pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR, trouble
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Are John and Norma right – are we facing the end of mass-retirement?
@JosephineCumbo could you pls explain why “open” DB schemes are less risky than closed schemes, and should therefore be subject to weaker funding requirements? “Josephine Cumbo: Open and closed case @@corpadviser https://t.co/u3loRiZxB6 — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) October 30, 2020 The … Continue reading
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Tagged DB Funding Code, de-risking, John Ralfe, Lockdown, Norma Cohen, Pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR
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Who pays for us doing nothing? Pension schemes and the poor!
Crikey, that’s some chart. But, what does it mean for future of credit etc? 1. Those who are attractive to lend to don’t need or want credit 2. Those who need credit most are not attractive to lend to. This … Continue reading
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Tagged credit, credit cards, de-risking, financial inclusion, Furlough, poor, TPR
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Has tPR just signed its own death warrant?
Today we are launching a discussion on our 15-year corporate strategy to protect the future financial wellbeing of savers. https://t.co/Cg1e3Ek6Eg #pensions pic.twitter.com/bBd9n4Eock — ThePensionsRegulator (@TPRgovuk) October 16, 2020 Note to regulator; you do not decide the news agenda, that is … Continue reading
TPR’s funding dilemma increases
In an article in FTfm this morning , Guillaume Prache, MD of Better Finance (a EU wide organisation representing savers) claims that EU Governments have deliberately chosen to sacrifice the financial security of pension savers in favour of artificial … Continue reading
Association of Pension Lawyers dubious about tPR’s DB funding code
Editor’s note Apologies to the APL and to readers for the poor reproduction of Rosalind Connor’s letter. This is due to the shortcomings of my PDF reading rather than a failure of the APL to correctly format … Continue reading
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Tagged APL, Arc, Consultation, DB Funding Code, Pension lawyers, Rosalind connor, TPR
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