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Can the slowdown in UK life expectancy save company pension deficits?

25 Aug 2017
by Siobhan Pandya

Earlier this year, data from the UK’s Continuous Mortality Investigation Mortality Projections Committee showed that life expectancy improvements have slowed dramatically. Initially thought to be a blip in the data, there is increasing evidence, both in the UK and in other developed countries, that this is a structural change in… Read the article

Companies Pensions UK
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The nonsense of pension fund accounting

11 Aug 2017
by Matt Cable

Last October, my colleague Tom Dobell wrote about the absurdity of how companies are forced to treat their long-term pension liabilities.

After another couple of reporting periods characterised by falling discount rates, I wanted to lay out in a slightly more mathematical fashion why I think Tom… Read the article

Pensions UK
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Pensions: unrealistic assumptions for tomorrow cause real pain today

12 Oct 2016
by Tom Dobell

Pensions are long-term obligations. Falling interest rates have affected both the way that companies calculate the size of these liabilities, but also the assumed growth rates of the assets that they hold in order to pay those pensions.

What is quite extraordinary in my view is that QE, which now… Read the article

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