Tag Archives: United States
“99 will do” – a blog for golf widow(er)s
It is thoroughly to be recommended to all who have loved ones addicted to the game of golf. It will cure them of that addiction and send them home to your arms, in which they may find solace. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, customer service, dc pensions
Tagged Bunker, Country club, Courses, Golf, Golf ball, Golf course, Granny, Pádraig Harrington, Perth Western Australia, Portmarnock, Sport, United States
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Chip off the old block?
My son Oliver has a blog and to my surprise has asked me to advertise it here … so here it is http://www.tapsport-o.blogspot.com It is a strange place. He doesn’t appear to have any interest in collective DC or annuities … Continue reading
Posted in Twickenham
Tagged annuities, Business, Collecting, Financial services, Home, Insurance, music, Ne-Yo, Recreation, Twickenham, United States, yeovil town fc
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The man from OECD says “guess”
It’s a sobering time for those involved in pensions policy and for those who are trying to advise companies and people in how to organises their finances to meet their retirement income needs. One thing people don’t want to do is guess. They … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, OECD, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Australia, Chile, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined contribution plan, France, Germany, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Politics, Retirement, Stock market index, United States
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The right to screw up your pension
There’s a place in Iceland where the American and European tectonic plates grind together like two sets of molars. At Thingvellir you can smell the sulphur emitting from the fissures where the plates grind and you can peer into the unfathomable … Continue reading
Global command post???
We’ve been sold a pup. The arrest of Bin Laden is revealing an uncomfortable truth – we were terrified of a couple of couriers, an old beardie boy and a goat holed up in a middle class suburb of an Islamabad suburb.
Uk bosses, should you sell-out your pensioners?
The link between you and your employer has been lost.
Posted in annuity, Liability Driven Investment, pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Bournville, Insurance, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pension Protection Fund, pensions, Pensions, Port Sunlight, Retirement, unilever, United States
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Only the good die young
There is hope for me – maybe I will be remembered as too good for my pension.
Posted in de-risking
Tagged Brentford, Brentford F.C., de-risking, Health, Smoking, Sports, Table tennis, Tobacco, Tobacco smoking, United States, Zurich Financial Services
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Two and a half cheers for UK pensions
The other man’s grass is always greener or so it would seem if you work in the UK pension industry. Over the years we have got used to a succession of overseas dignitaries visiting our shores, speaking at our conferences and … Continue reading
Posted in mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Financial Assistance Scheme, Institute of Actuaries, mallowstreet, NEST, New Zealand, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pensions, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce, Royal Society of the Arts, South Africa, The PEnsion Regulator, Treasury, United States, USA
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