Monthly Archives: September 2016
“Britain’s future is brighter than the British realise!” – Dr Pippa Malmgren
This is a blog by Pippa Malmgren. I met her through the good folk at Mallowstreet and she is my favourite economic commentator bar none. So I’m really pleased she’s agreed for me to republish this remarkable work here. … Continue reading
The street to mallowfield
One of the pleasures of living in Blackfriars is the Church of St Andrew and St Ann which is right beside my pub and my flat. The Church’s inspired Priest is Luke- and he’s also Archdeacon of London, which means … Continue reading
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Anger and remorse – how do they help?
I have two important engagements next week. On Monday afternoon I will stand up at the TTF event in Westminster and ask those in Government to do more for workplace pensions and on Wednesday I’ll host a session at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Business, Conference, Moving on, pensions, professional pensions, Remorse, Yeats
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Why we don’t have health-based pension transfer values.
A Coleridge moment in the City I walked into a church at the bottom of Bow Street yesterday afternoon to have a cup of coffee. Slumped over his laptop, deep in thought, I saw a friend… He awoke from a statistical revery and stared … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, de-risking, ETV, first actuarial, James Smith, pensions, Pie, Pie exercise, Transfer values, TV
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Floundering in the dark – the PP DC Conference
De profundis It was a beautiful day and it was a great hotel. But I left the Professional Pensions Defined Contribution Conference profoundly depressed. Perhaps I needed lux in tenebris (see the progress that is being made elsewhere). The problems created … Continue reading
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Tagged blockchain, CDC, dc, Defined Contribution, Freedom, IGC, Pension Freedoms, PP Conference
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PENSIONS TRANSPARENCY REACHES PARLIAMENT
Lux in tenebris The roof leaks, the walls are crumbling but the House of Commons is still the seat of British Government. Andy Agethangelou has used the momentum he and his team have built up to set up a Transparency … Continue reading
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Tagged AMNT, Andy Agethangelou, chris sier, CIPP, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Tom Turgendhaut, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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Auto-enrolment-Is Workie working?
By now we were due to be in trouble. There was talks of Tsunamis and capacity crunches. Nostradamus had nothing on the industry commentators saying that we wouldn’t cope; we’re coping. I go to events and ask participants, how’s … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Pensions Regulator, TPR, Workie, workplace pension
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Whatever happened to the reform of pension tax relief?
The Government’s plans to resolve the injustices of the Pension Tax Relief system appear to have been ditched. Announced in the budget of 2015, expected in that year’s autumn statement and postponed in the months running up to this year’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, pensions, Philip Hammond, reform, tax relief
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Property or pension – Village or City?
Ros Altmann, who writes better than any financial commentator I know, has produced a brilliant blog on the differences between investing in a property and investing in a pension. You can read the blog here, this is the key … Continue reading
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Tagged advisor, Business, City, Immigrant, pension, Property, Ros Altmann, Village
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All talk, now action: from the Commons to G20, leaders must take a stand for entrepreneurs – Stephen Kelly.
With the USA’s Labor Day weekend over, September brings with it that ‘end of summer, back to school’ feeling years after we’ve left the classroom, and this week UK Ministers sharpen their pencils, dust off their books and … Continue reading
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