Monthly Archives: October 2016
My hour with Pension Wise (5 myths dispelled)
Pension Wise is in the news today as it is likely to form part of a new (yet to be named) single advisory organisation covering debt and pensions. At a time of uncertainty, I can add some certainty, the Pension … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Guidance, Help, pension, Pension Wise, Retirement, Technology, TPAS
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Organising labour
“I don’t care where you do it, how you do it , when you do it – as long as the f-ing work gets done”. My first boss. Of course he didn’t mean it- I soon found that flexible working … Continue reading
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Tagged Flex, Flexi time, Labour, Organising, pensions, Technology, unions, Work
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Con Keating reviews Dawid’s latest blog
For those interested in these things, the polarised positions of Dawid Konotey Ahulu and Con Keating represent the best articulated statements of the pension deficit funding debate. Dawid’s latest contribution can be read here. This review has not been solicited – … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, Cow Driven, Dawid, Dawid Konotey Ahulu, LDI, pensions, Royal Cow Transactions, Tragi-Comedy
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Buildings for the future -time to spend cheap money.
I am with Nigel Wilson on this “QE was designed by the rich for the rich; it drove up the price of assets rather than creating new ones and there has never been so much money available as today”, It’s … Continue reading
Value for money – we have won a battle not a war.
The FCA Consultation Paper CP16/30″Transaction cost disclosure in workplace pensions” is a very good piece of work and allows IGCs and Trustees to know what their members are paying to have their pension pots managed. It unlocks one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpe Diem, Conference, Conservative, CP16/30, Technology, Theresa May, Transparency, TTF
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Walk on! A panegyric for May’s interventionism.
This footpath is not a road – it is a footpath; it is not closed, it has been closed; it is not blocked by roadworks , the footpath is walkable but the pedestrian has to walk past some red tape. If … Continue reading
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Tagged Basingstoke, Global Markets, Housing, Infrastructure, Interventionism, pensions, Road Closed, Technology, Theresa May, town planning
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“Transaction cost disclosure in Workplace Pensions” – #FCA
Most people now have a DC workplace pension and if you haven’t got one you’re either very lucky (as you’re accruing a defined benefit) or one of the 6m marginal employees who are reckoned to be “entitled”, “non-eligible” or … Continue reading
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Tagged charges, costs, FCA, governance, IA, pension, workplace Pensions
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May’s way
I’ve been trying to work out what’s going on in British politics and how to characterise the changes in direction within our two major parties (and why our third parties seem so marginal). I’m concluding that what is going … Continue reading
What a difference a year makes; #CPC16
I only really notice party politics when the conferences are on, and as I’m at the Tory party conference at the moment, I feel like a sheep having my annual “dip”. Whatever they’re dipping me in has changed since last year! … Continue reading
Tory Party Conference – making it up as they go along.
I am at the Conservative party conference sitting between two earnest ladies working hard. Behind me someone who is called Giles is braying into his mobile phone about how much champagne he drank last night. Most people I have … Continue reading
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