Pensions newsletter - previous editions

To download a previous edition of Pensions please refer to the links below. Alternatively, contact Lina Stoto to request a copy by post.

Pensions: August 2006

• Scheme funding
• The use of pensions advisers
• Mortality assumptions
• Delays to scheme funding
• Pensions in deals
• Tax relief on contributions

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Pensions: October 2005

• Accounting for change
• Doing the deal on pensions
• Scheme funding delayed
• Risk-based levies - round 2
• Getting tax relief on contributions

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Pensions: August/September 2005

• D-day for trustees
• Employer covenant
• Getting prepared for "A-day"
• Pension Protection Fund (PPF) risk-based levies
• Age discrimination to be illegal (unless you're old)

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Pensions: June 2005

John Shuttleworth, principal author of this newsletter for many years, died suddenly in April. Here, some of his finest writing is collected together. This tribute issue opens with his final penned but previously unpublished article. Pensions will continue to be published from August/September under new authorship.

• Gravity
• J'accuse
• Everything that can be said can be said clearly
• Actuarial mathematics 101
• Fools and their money
• The elephant in the trustee meeting
• Ten myths about pension fund investment
• Who wants to live to age 110?
• Lost?
• And finally…

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Pensions: April 2005

• Tribal behaviour
• Reforming the annuity market
• A very different kind of regulator
• If actuaries did not exist, no one would invent them
• When companies provide social security

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Pensions: February 2005

• US social security
• Myners four years on
• Fact is stranger than fiction
• Conflicts of interests
• How the Dutch do it
• The pension protection fund and the law of unintended consequences
• Pensions "simplification"

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Pensions: Compendium 1998 - 2004

Selected articles written by John Shuttleworth and published in Pensions between 1998 and 2004 are available in this compendium, grouped under the following ten chapters:

• Home truths about investment
• Public policy
• Personal finance
• Reforming social security
• Planet actuary
• Foreign parts
• Pension fund investment
• Trusteeship
• Fools and their money
• Laughter
• Appendices

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