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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Pension Bee – Making Money Matter!
I’m pleased to see Pension Bee announce it is one of the founding pledge partners of Make My Money Matter, a new national campaign calling for the UK to have ‘pensions with intention’. PensionBee, the UK’s leading online pension … Continue reading
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Pensions are today’s Big Read for FT readers
It is worth getting hold of an FT today or taking out a subscription. Jo Cumbo Robin Wigglesworth and Billy Nauman have compiled stunning insights from around the world on how the pandemic has deepened the global pension crisis. I’ve … Continue reading
Lock down or look up?
I recently published a blog suggesting that the approach Sweden has taken to managing the pandemic delivers a start warning to Britain. Today I publish comment on the blog from two people whose views I value. Both see Sweden’s response … Continue reading
For workplace pensions value for money means……..
One of the questions in the FCA’s consultation on value for money is whether its definition is ok or whether we can find a better one. This is our definition Pension value for money’s measured by the amount … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Value for Money
Tagged Costs and charges, FCA, IGC, Money, Service, value, Value for Money, VFM
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One love or schism?
“Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages. Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration. While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around … Continue reading
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Tagged BLM, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela, schism, Steve Simkins
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Sweden – a stark warning for Britain?
COVID-19 is really putting Sweden on the map, and maybe for the wrong reasons. Unlike most EU countries, Sweden did not try to shut society down. It closed schools for the over-16s and banned gatherings of more than 50 people, but … Continue reading
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“Make my Money Matter” launches Tuesday; here’s your invitation
Make My Money Matter, spearheaded by Richard Curtis, Co-founder of Comic Relief, is launching a movement calling for the trillions of pounds invested in our UK pensions to build a better world – one that puts people and planet alongside profit. … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, ESG, pensions
Tagged Gillian Tett, Helen Dean, Make My Money Matter, Mark Carney, richard curtis, Russell Picot, Tanya Steele, Vincent Franklin
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The risks “private funds” pose to UK’s workplace pensions.
The publication of a document form the American Securities and Exchange Commission into the activities of private equity and hedge funds (private funds) came two days before the DWP called for evidence on the AE charge cap. You can read … Continue reading
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Tagged Hedge Funds, PE, Private Equity, private funds, workplace Pensions
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The FCA promote a secondary market in workplace pensions
It’s an obscure section of a paper that will probably be read by a relatively few people expert in pensions. If I hadn’t published it this morning it might have been overlooked as it is buried deep in the cost … Continue reading
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Tagged FCA, pension playpen, Secondary market, Steve Goddard, workplace Pensions
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“Mind the lag”; what we can learn from the States
In America they said the virus was beaten, and the virus wasn’t beaten This alarming chart illustrates the poor job the U.S. has done in containing Covid-19 compared to the European Union, a bigger region of independent countries that suffered … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Abbott, Bournemouth, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Texas, UK, US
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