Comments on Pensions White Paper
Ros’ views on the reform proposals contained in the Government’s pension reform White Paper.
ACCA pensions lecture aPension Provision in the 21st Century'
Lecture delivered for the ACCA at the Museum of London, discussing the pensions landscape and the role of the accounting profession in helping clients prepare for forthcoming reforms.
Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee – Pension Reform – After Turner
Presentation to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee outlining Ros’ pension reform ideas and where her views differ from those of the Pensions Commission.
Rethinking retirement and pensions for the 21st Century
Presentation given at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to a delegation of visiting diplomats from Vietnam, outlining Ros’ views on pension and retirement reforms for the 21st Century.
Savings Market conference – Radically rethinking retirement
Presentation to the Savings Market conference in London, entitled aRadically Rethinking Retirement, New approaches for the 21st Century’ discussing Ros’s views that we need to reconsider what we expect from both retirement and pensions, in order to be able to move forward on pension reform.
What is the future for pension saving?
Speech given by Ros Altmann to the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) looking at the future for pension saving after the Pension Commission report.
Prudential is advising customers to contract back in, why not abolish contracting out?
Press Release explaining why contracting out should be abolished as part of radical pension reform and most providers are already advising their clients that they should not remain contracted out.
Press Release questioning whether winter fuel and other allowances to pensioners should be more targeted
Press Release explaining that winter fuel and other benefits for pensioners are costing over half as much as Pension Credit, yet are not targeted at all and asking whether this is a sensible use of taxpayers’ money.
U turn on pension simplification reforms is a shambles
Press Release discussing Ros’s view that the government’s climbdown on allowing residential property into personal pensions and last-minute changes of pension simplification tax rules is the right decision but dreadful timing. The Government should never have proposed this and should have listened to warnings over the last 2 years that such changes would lead to huge losses of tax revenue.
What is the case for employer compulsion?
Additional comments from Ros on the Pensions Commission reform proposals, questioning the intellectual case for compelling employers to contribute to pensions and discussing some of Ros’s reservations about the proposals.