The February 1999 issue of Pensions World

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COMMENT
  • Green with a hint of white
    The green paper has immense potential for good or evil, says Ann Robinson. Will it just paper over the cracks in pensions legislation?

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CURRENT EVENTS
5/7/8/11/12/13/14/16
A round up of current news including:
  • New FSA liabilities for actuaries
  • Green Paper: hit or miss?
  • New Pensions Minister
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TRUSTEE TOPICS
  • An investment tonic
    Bored of the active vs passive debate? Paul Lavin will refresh the parts other articles haven't reached, as he looks at active quantative asset management.
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IF I WERE PENSIONS MINISTER...
  • Back to work
    Pensions World believes that industry luminaries could do a better job as pensions minister than the politicians. In the first of an occasional series, Alan Pickering, sets out his manifesto.

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TRUSTEE TRAINING
  • The trusty ship "training"
    Antonia Senior advises trustees to avoid drowning in pensions regulations by climbing aboard a good trustee training course.

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PENSIONS PROVISION
  • Wide load
    Industry wide schemes should rise up and shout their message from the rooftops, says Richard Stroud.
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  • Brothers in arms
    ISAs and stakeholder pensions could become allies in the Government's war against inadequate savings. But will they have a close fraternal bond like Castor and Pollux, or will they become the Cain and Abel of the savings belt, asks Adrian Boulding.
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  • Money money money
    Voulez vous an ISA? Take a chance on it, and the winner takes it all, says the Government. But will savers who sing gimme, gimme, gimme then shout SOS, and meet their Waterloo, asks Colin Ledlie.

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INVESTMENT
  • Chalk & cheese
    What difference do market based techinques make to valuing pension schemes? Chinu patel wipes the actuarial assumptions' blackboard clean.
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  • Breaking the bank
    If a croupier loads the dice, he could earn a pair of concrete boots. A consultant doing the same in search of an investment manager will earn high praise. Don Ezra reports.
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  • Picking a winning ticket
    The odds on picking a successful investment manager can seem longer than those on winning the lottery. But Alistair Sutherland says it doesn't have to be a lucky dip.
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PENSIONS ADMINISTRATION
  • Calling the shots
    Nick Wheeler sings the praises of call centres, and shows how to make them effective.
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REGULAR FEATURES
  • Political stage
    Litmus Test:Sue Ward tests the pensions Green Paper on yellow, red and blue surfaces and finds perceptions change with each colour.
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  • Pressing the point
    Hip Hip Hooray: The Government's Green Paper has had a mixed reaction from the press, but Nic Cicutti says it is good enough to shout about.
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  • Beginner's page
    In actuary fact: Mick O'Loan answers one of life's mysteries: what do actuaries actually do?
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  • Points of law
    The good book: This month's lesson from the Right Irreverent Robin Ellison praises the wise man of pension trusteeship.
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Courses and seminars 14
Diary of events 14
Letters 16
Tax and benefit notes 56
Overseas Benefits 58
Pensions progress 59
NAPF update 60
Association forum 61
Statistics 63


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