When only 8 to 15 mega-trusts dominate the entire defined contribution (DC) and LGPS landscape, peer-group risk may override manager…
This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…
Here's another way for a pension fund to get in the soup. https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal.html
I had earlier today read a medical research article reporting on a Japanese study that found that “supercentenarians” — those…
Monthly Archives: September 2015
What Mr Corbyn taught us yesterday
Yesterday was the first parliamentary test of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He created history by crowd-sourcing 6 questions from over 40,000 submitted him by people like you and me. Because these questions were from ordinary people, they were treated with respect. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Eagle, Claridges Hotel, Corbyn, David Cameron, Iain Anderson, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, question time
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If you don’t want exit penalties at retirement – stop paying middlemen!
The Daily Telegraph’s Katie Morley is running a typically campaigning piece picking up on stats released to Government that show that an estimated 2.2m pension savers won’t get the full value of their pension pot if they exercise pension freedoms … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, charges, Collective Pensions, costs, DWP, intermediaries, NEST, NOW, pensions, the Daily Telegraph
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Pension PlayPen teams up with aeExchange
Pension PlayPen has teamed up with Juan Ho’s aeEchange to provide a holistic service for employers struggling with auto-enrolment. Many tens of thousands of employers have already benefited from Ho’s software. Remarkably Payroo, which provides an integrated payroll payment and … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, advice, auto enrolment, auto-enroment, Company, corporate risk, Juan Ho, Martin Lewis, Payroll, Payroo AEexchange, pension playpen, RTI
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Should I give my job to a computer?
This week the BBC has been running a series of programs on artificial intelligence. The first program asked the question HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO COMPUTERISATION? and reference was made to a study published here. I’d give it a read if you have a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Business, Business and Economy, computer, Employment, ETF, FinTech, Government, job, jobs, nutmeg, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Smartphone
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Why Corbynism is radical (and what it means for pensions)
The most tweeted action of Corbyn’s first 24 hours as Labour leader was to choose to go to a constituency engagement rather than go on the Andrew Marr show. For Labour apparatchnick schooled in two decades of Blairite PR and … Continue reading
Posted in consultant, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics
Tagged advice, Andrew Marr, British politicians, Chris Siers, Con Keating, corporate risk, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, Financial services, George Kirrin, Government, Hilary Salt, Jeremy Corbyn, John Mcdonnell, Labour, Labour leader, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Mastertrusts – an accident waiting to happen?
How do we pay for pensions? We still know too little about what we are paying for pensions. The following statement appears on Standard Life’s website Employers can be confident that their schemes will all be compliant with the charge … Continue reading
Corbyn – Pietas and the Malcolm Tucker Litmus Test
I’ve been thinking about Jeremy Corbyn but I’ve had nothing to say, because I didn’t get what was going on and didn’t know how to divide hype from reality. Now I know the reality, 60% of the people who voted … Continue reading
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Tagged Burnham, Chirst, Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Malcolm, Malcolm Tucker, omnishambles, Pietas, Tucker
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How Pensions are getting fairer.
I was speaking with a Scottish friend , an academic and one of the few politicians I know who was brought up without a lot of money in the family. I had to phrase that carefully, for when I first wrote … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator, Ros Altmann
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, occupational pension schemes, pension, Pension new, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pension scheme, pension schemes, pensions, Retirement, short-service, Tax
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Linked In’s no website for old men!
Yeats wrote that Byzantium was no country for old men. He was right, according to the Daily Express, we are all on linked in leering at young girl’s profiles. It looks like the poem should get re-written for young women … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Byzantium, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, Linked in, no country for old men, old men, pensions, sailing to Byzantium, WB Yeats, young women
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Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…