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 Updated: 9/6/2008
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PPF’s flaws due to quick-fix birth John Ralfe, FTfm, 9/6/2008
Summary: "If there is a bail-out by taxpayers we should not blame the PPF’s board, who have been genuinely robust and pragmatic"
Pension Costs Off by $500 Million, New York City Finds Danny Hakim, New York Times, 3/6/2008
Summary: "An actuary relied upon by the State Legislature to determine the cost of proposals affecting New York City’s pension system underestimated their ultimate cost by at least $500 million.
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To the manor elected , The Economist, 30/5/2008
Summary: "MPs’ plush pensions could be the next controversy"
Nice little earners for Mr Speaker Sue Cameron, Financial Times, 28/5/2008
Summary: "Commons Speaker Michael Martin has a £1.5m pension pot"
SSRB is not concerned with cost of MPs’ pensions Sir John Baker, Financial Times Letters, 11/4/2008
Summary: "Response to JER letter on MPs’ pensions"
Cost of MPs’ pensions to taxpayers grossly understated John Ralfe, Financial Times Letters, 7/4/2008
Summary: "The real cost of MPs’ annual pensions to taxpayers is 50% of salary not 18%, the official figure"
Pensions still oblivious to bond wisdom Edward Chancellor, FTfm, 3/3/2008
Summary: "It remains a mystery why more CFOs haven’t responded to Black’s brilliant proposal."
US pension body’s shift over equities adds insult to injury Zvi Bodie & John Ralfe, Financial Times Letter (US), 26/2/2008
Summary: "Holding more equities looks like the PBGC trying to bet its way out of a loss."
US pensions safety net takes risky path Pauline Skypala, FTfm, 25/2/2008
Summary: "Organisations like the PBGC surely have a duty to put risk management first and foremost."
Running up the down escalator , The Economist, 21/2/2008
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Like the Pensions Regulator’s guidance on longevity the ASB’s proposals inject realism."
PBGC Press Release 08-19, February 18, 2008 , , 18/2/2008
Summary: "The PBGC announces its move to equities."
Clearer view of pension costs in the offing John Ralfe, FTfm, 18/2/2008
Summary: "Given the scale of pensions, BT is the UK’s largest pension scheme that just happens to own a telecoms business"
Pensions Regulator’s Paper on Longevity The Pensions Regulator, , 18/2/2008
Summary: "Sets out guidelines on acceptable longevity assumptions"
BT pension black hole would worsen under ASB rules Norma Cohen, Financial Times, 7/2/2008
Summary: "the proposed rules do not alter the underlying economics of BT’s pensions obligations; they simply make them more transparent.
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BT warned retirement liabilities could hit £46bn David Litterick, Daily Telegraph, 7/2/2008
Summary: "BT’s pension liabilities could balloon to nearly £46bn and its current surplus turn into a deficit to £7.6bn"
Pensions \"can wipe out BT profits\" Phillip Inman, The Guardian, 7/2/2008
Summary: "BT would be one of the worst affected by the rule changes because it supports the largest private sector guaranteed retirement fund."
The Financial Reporting of Pensions Accounting Standards Board, , 31/1/2008
Summary: "ASB Discussion Paper on reforms to pensions accounting"
MPs’ pensions fail transparency test John Ralfe, FTfm, 21/1/2008
Summary: "How has the Senior Salaries Review Body got the cost of MPs’ pensions so wrong?"
What is the real cost of MPs’ pensions? Lisa Buckingham, Mail on Sunday, 20/1/2008
Summary: "Clearly, our elected representatives find numbers something of a challenge.
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Time to vote out MPs’ pension deal Ruth Sunderland, The Observer, 20/1/2008
Summary: "If we are going to have a proper debate on MPs’ pay and pensions we need accurate numbers."
Annual cost of MPs’ pensions triples Chris Hope, Daily Telegraph, 9/1/2008
Summary: "It is very convenient for MPs that the cost of their pensions is understated."
Taxpayers will foot £16m annual bill for MPs’ pensions Alex Barker, Financial Times, 8/1/2008
Summary: "The reported cost to the taxpayer of MP’s pensions is grossly understated."
Postal deal signed but will it deliver? John Ralfe, FTfm, 12/11/2007
Summary: "Is the deal agreed with enough to solve Royal Mail’s pension problems?"
Pension Protection Fund Accounts 2006/7 PPF, , 1/10/2007
Summary: "Shows PPF longevity assumptions & method of valuing liabilities"
House of Commons Accounts 2006-7 , TSO, 24/7/2007
Summary: "Shows the FRS17 cost of MPs’ pensions (p33)"
Testing the UK Pensions Regulator John Ralfe, FTfm, 25/6/2007
Summary: "What does the Alliance Boots deal tell us about the powers of the Pensions Regulator?"
Alliance Boots’ trustees in strong position with KKR John Ralfe, FTfm, 30/4/2007
Summary: "KKR do not want to be seen as barbarians at the gate and must win the goodwill of employees, pension scheme members and the wider public."
Wake up this morning to a longer life? Andrew Clare, Financial Times Letters, 28/2/2007
Summary: "So if actuaries cannot keep up with longevity trends, what can they do?
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No suggestion that actuaries were at fault Stewart Ritchie & Nick Dumbreck, Financial Times Letters, 27/2/2007
Summary: "Letter from the two most senior UK actuaries."
No loose change down the back of the sofa for pensions John Ralfe, Financial Times Letters, 23/2/2007
Summary: "How to compensate those who have lost their pensions"
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