Tag Archives: TV
Pension Credit – new figures reveal large regional gaps
Fresh drive to boost Pension Credit take-up as new figures reveal large regional gaps in those receiving benefit worth around £4,300 a year A new trial to boost Pension Credit take up is underway after analysis showed significant regional disparities … Continue reading
Con Keating on the real cost of pension transfers
Imagine buying a bond at par, say a ten-year, ten-percent coupon issue; then let five years pass, when market interest rates decline to one percent. At this time, the bond is trading in the market at £143.68 percent. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Pension Freedoms, pensions, Retirement, trustee
Tagged Bond, CETV, Con Keating, ppf, Transfer, TV, valuation
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Why we don’t have health-based pension transfer values.
A Coleridge moment in the City I walked into a church at the bottom of Bow Street yesterday afternoon to have a cup of coffee. Slumped over his laptop, deep in thought, I saw a friend… He awoke from a statistical revery and stared … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, de-risking, ETV, first actuarial, James Smith, pensions, Pie, Pie exercise, Transfer values, TV
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Do I need a TV anymore?
Other than for the prurience of watching Tina’s come uppance on Corrie. I have not engaged with terrestrial TV for some time. Phone and laptop in hand I have found all I needed on the Monaco Grand Prix, … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Business, Business and Economy, Buzzfeed, Communications, Facebook, pensions, Savings, Smashed Sudents, social media, Society, TV, twitter, Vice
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