I would like to intervene at this point because a lot has been spoken about. When there is a calculation of the percentage of the value of the assets for an individual transferring out, which is done on various actuarial calculations, will those actuarial calculations be able to take into account long-term market risk so that there is an element of the fact that if you are withdrawing at a time of high markets, you may be getting more, as I said, than would have been your long-term due? If there is no such mechanism, have we learned nothing from mutual funds running on net-asset value, where there are runs and the people who are slowest to move and get their money out are the ones who are trapped with low value? We have invented things such as gating mechanisms to cope with that. There is potentially such a thing as a run on a pension fund, so how will we guard against that?
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 24 February 2020.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Pension Schemes Bill [HL].
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