Monthly Archives: October 2020
Stop blaming freedom (for pension scamming)!
There are many things that pension freedoms have brought us and one of them is the pail of hogwash that they’ve opened the door to pension scams. This is the line peddled by the FCA’s new CEO Nikhil Rathi at … Continue reading
Green pensions? How the DWP are looking to take the luck out of the pot.
Gina Miller is right on this Encouraging people to go green with their #pensions is an excellent aspiration but be very cautious @GuyOpperman Until @TheFCA protects consumers by granting 100% transparency of holdings, acts to stop #greenwashing – this could … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, ESG, Green, Impact investment, luck, Pensions, Pot, SRI
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What Your Body Does After One Month Off Alcohol
OMG; 10 days off the hooch and I’m not recognizing any of these positives. Instead I’m grumpy, have toothache and Stella and I are wondering whether we can do another three weeks. Thanks to the people who’ve donated to … Continue reading
The conversion of the Pension Plowman
I had a bit of a ding-dong with Guy Opperman earlier in the year when I disagreed with him about getting illiquid investments into our workplace pension “Backing annuities – yes, backing DB scheme pensions -yes, but shoe-horned into DC … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, dc pensions, DWP, pensions
Tagged ESG, Impact investment, Infrastructure, Private Equity, social purpose
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“Kissing the virus” -COVID 19 actuaries weekly report (24)
The Friday Report – Issue 24 … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Covid-19, Flu, Kissing the virus, R, spread, Trump, university
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Do we need a pension dashboard , open pensions or both?
The title of this post is also the title of a session I am chairing at a forthcoming DG conference. I suggested the title and the organisers have asked me to explain myself – so here goes! I had long … Continue reading
Who will disrupt western financial markets?
Maarten Ectors, L&G’s Chief Innovation Officer, writes regularly about using innovation to create new businesses. He has created Fintechs himself and now holds sway over innovation in one of Britain’s most powerful financial institutions. When he writes, he writes with … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, blockchain
Tagged China, DeFi, Disruption, FinTech, L&G, Maarten Ectors, Tik-tok
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Open pensions make Pot-for-Life redundant
oked at proposals from the Australian Government to test Super pension schemes for the value we were giving for member’s money. This idea is not being universally well received in the UK, David Harris described it as politically inspired tosh. … Continue reading
Aussies put pensions to the test (could Britain follow?)
With characteristic bluntness, the Australian Government has decided that if a pension fund is not delivering to its users, it will be starved of new savers until it does. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will develop systems that will enable … Continue reading
#UKPA – rewarding in a virtual way – come on AgeWage !
At 4pm this afternoon, we will be virtually attending the UK Pension Awards with faint hopes that my start-up AgeWage will pick up some kind of recognition for our work. I’ve bragged before about being up for four awards and … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Blogging, brand, journalism
Tagged AgeWage, Pensions, professional pensions, UKPA
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