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Topic: Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.
Posted by: Guy Lambert
Date/Time: 15/03/15 23:02:00

From a brief look, the pension fund investments seem to be doing OK but there is still a huge deficit -around £400M - between the assets and liabilities (ie pensions which the council are legally obiged to pay) ://www.hounslow.gov.uk/pension_fund_annual_report_2014.pdf

This is not uncommon amongst pension schemes with 'defined benefits' because pensioners are living a lot longer than the schemes originally expected. If you add miserable interest rates and poor stock market performance, plus some technical issues to do with inflation that I don't really understand it means many schemes (including the private sector one to which I belong) are in serious deficit and are paying down the deficit over many years (in Hounslow's case this seems to be 17), with occasional lump sum contributions.


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budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.15/03/15 20:16:00 Mark Proctor
   Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.15/03/15 23:02:00 Guy Lambert
      Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.15/03/15 23:16:00 Mark Proctor
         Re:Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.16/03/15 09:51:00 Sam Hearn
         Re:Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.16/03/15 09:51:00 Sam Hearn
            Re:Re:Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.18/03/15 08:11:00 Andrew OSullivan
            Re:Re:Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.18/03/15 08:15:00 Mark Proctor
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:budget surplus went to 10m pension top-up.18/03/15 10:39:00 Sam Hearn

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