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: December 2021
MFS explore why the world worries about pensions,
My friend Jim Hennington points me towards interesting behavioural research from active fund manager MFS. The concern is real; we don’t know what to do when we get down to converting a savings pot to a retirement income So … Continue reading
Is TPR’s DB consultation nudge enough?
The second consultation into the Pensions Regulator’s new defined benefit funding code will be delayed until “late summer” 2022 – https://t.co/jtheFBLLrZ@TPRgovuk @david_fairs @DWP @agewageuk @henryhtapper #definedbenefit pic.twitter.com/Ekw20g3gnp — Pensions Expert (@pensions_expert) December 15, 2021 Since the SG Conference on Monday, … Continue reading
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PPI celebrates 20th birthday with its UK Pensions Policy framework!
It’s the Pension Policy Institute’s’s 20th birthday this year and it has marked that achievement with the creation of a new pension framework. They have published the slides of yesterday’s launch event. PPI the uk-pensions-framework-showcase-slides from Henry Tapper Here … Continue reading
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Woon Wong’s letter to TPR on USS’ deficit
At a recent pension conference, Woon Wong mentioned a letter sent to David Fairs which would be posted on my blog. This is the letter and I am proud to openly publish it. At the conference were a number of … Continue reading
Truell give pensions good tidings of comfort and joy.
In a tour de force at yesterday’s conference on pension scheme “endgame, middle-game and long-game“, Edi Truell vowed to open his Pension Superfund to savers wanting to convert thier pots to pensions. Truell is planning, once his Superfund is … Continue reading
When it comes to vaccines, we listen to science – not bosses – and definately NOT Boris.
The UK Government will not enforce the mandation of vaccination against Covid – it is not the kind of things UK Governments – especially Conservative led Governments . The importance of dealing with the Omnicon problem now is highlighted by … Continue reading
Small is beautiful – give pensioners a say!
In this blog I ask whether big pension funds can act small and connect with their pensioners in a meaningful way. I conclude that it will be easier for the consolidators to do this, than the small pension fund. Zpen … Continue reading
The OECD double our pension expectations – we all need to read the small print!
An introduction to Welsh prophets Back in 2015, I wrote a blot entitled “private savings to rescue public finances“ The year before, the Government actuary- then Trevor Llanwarne had prophesied that by 2020, auto-enrolment would be making an appreciable … Continue reading
Why not get some Edi-cation on Monday afternoon?
Love him or loahe him, Edi Truell is pensions greatest disruptor. What he says and how he says it is always interesting and hats off to Stephen Glover for grabbing the man, not just to speak, but to spend the … Continue reading
Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…