Tag Archives: Work and Pensions Committee

The real cost of de-risking ; Keating and Clacher’s submission to parliament

Posted on June 11, 2023 by henry tapper

This is Con Keating’s and Iain Clacher’s submission to the Work and Pensions Committe’s call for evidence on “Defined benefit pensions with Liability Driven Investments”. Written in March of this year, it represents an important perspective on the subject that … Continue reading →

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PIRC tells WPC – LDI crisis a product of poor accounting standards

Posted on January 30, 2023 by henry tapper

    This blog is a transcription of the submission of Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC) to the Work and Pension Committee’s inquiry Defined benefit pensions with Liability Driven Investments 1              Summary Problems with the accounting standards which have led to … Continue reading →

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Work and Pensions Committee and the Pensions Regulator ; Iain Clacher & Con Keating

Posted on December 14, 2022 by henry tapper

  This morning the Pensions Regulator will be giving evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into Liability Driven Investment. Charles Counsell, the Chief Executive of the Pensions Regulator, wrote a letter to the Lord’s Industry and Regulator’s committee … Continue reading →

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Parliamentary evidence impugned; £500bn LDI loss explained.

Posted on December 11, 2022 by henry tapper

John Ralfe has written the following to the Work and Pensions Committee.   Supplementary evidence from John Ralfe Consulting Ltd  Thank you for the opportunity to give evidence to the Committee, which I hope you found useful. During the session Professor … Continue reading →

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The Money and Pensions Service is in a mess – and it needs to be told so.

Posted on September 23, 2021 by henry tapper

This session of the Work and Pension Committee’s taking of oral evidence was a game of two halves. In the first half, David Fairs and Sarah Pritchard had a reasoned debate with selected MPs on how people could expect to … Continue reading →

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