Monthly Archives: February 2022
Britain’s cash-flow crisis and what it means for pension saving.
The next few months will see huge hardship for large numbers of people who have no financial buffer and will experience bigger food bills, higher fuel payments and higher costs to pay debt. On top of this , they will … Continue reading
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Putting people in control of their pension data.
At least one of my providers did that to me when I asked them to send my data to @henryhtapper at @agewage. Refused to do it and would only send to me to forward on. — alan chaplin (@achaplin71) February … Continue reading
Finding the right neck of the woods (for DC illiquids).
The appropriately named Guy Rainbird has commissioned work from the PPI that confirms a belief among many who understand investment trusts, that DC funds would be well advised to access the returns of illiquid assets through investment trusts. I’m quoting … Continue reading
Zoom-bombing
Pension PlayPen coffee morning “Zoom-bombed”. At yesterday’s Pension PlayPen coffee morning, uninvited strangers crashed a Zoom meeting on CDC and pension scamming. A number of hackers interrupted the introductions, When Con Keating started presenting. a Zoom bomber scribbled all over … Continue reading
The dashboard – a sledgehammer to a nut?
After writing about the minutia of the pension dashboard consultation yesterday, I got some interesting feedback on social media from people who are a generation too old to have a proliferation of pensions. Most of the feedback was in the … Continue reading
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Will these pension dashboards be worth the wait?
This week, the Government published a paper on the regulations that will govern the delivery and running of pension dashboards. These should begin appearing in 2024 and will reach steady state some time before the end of this decade. In … Continue reading
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The PPF’s 11 defined benefit pension need-to-knows
This is the third and final of the PPF’s blogs devoted to explaining pensions to its membership. I hope that readers find them refreshing and that there are good things in them which they can use for themselves, their clients … Continue reading