Monthly Archives: December 2023
Bryn Davies of Brixton – a champion for pensions
This morning Pension PlayPen has the pleasure of the company of Bryn, a champion of pensions since the 1970s The life peerage recently awarded to Brinley Howard Davies has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Davies … Continue reading
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Nick Sherry and pension realpolitik
Nick Sherry, the Tasmanian Devil of Australian pensions is back in the UK and – courtesy of David Harris – finds his way to Darren and Nico’s VFM podcast. Pot for life? This post is picking up on a couple … Continue reading
Time to stop kidding ourselves about wealth
The UK wealth management business sets the bar of “wealth” too low and misleads the mass-affluent into believing they are what they are not- wealthy. In doing so, they offer products and services which are out of their customers financial … Continue reading
“Enter the superfund…” If only!
This post is worth unpacking as the Edmund (Edi) Truell has committed getting on for £50m of his hard earned capital to improving the funding of UK pensions, both in terms of quantity and quality Much needed If Britain is … Continue reading
Jason Fletcher: why we need joined up pension and economic policy
One of the best things about being old and opinionated is getting invited to pension events where you met genuinely, nice, interesting and talented people Jason Fletcher, former CIO of the LGPS pool London CIV is one such! In this … Continue reading
Who’s on the hook for “targeted support” of unspent pension pots?
On Friday, the FCA published the drily titled DP23/5: Advice Guidance Boundary Review – proposals for closing the advice gap Most of the attention will be on its proposal to introduce simple advice which can be charged for from a … Continue reading
FCA leaves pensions to trustees and savers
Targeted support not simplified advice please! The FCA have issued another consultative document that attempts to help ordinary people make financial decisions (bridge the advice gap – as the regulatory parlance has it) It has two good ideas, “targeted … Continue reading
A baron not a robber – Bryn Davies live on Playpen – Tuesday
I am very pleased that I will be able to introduce Bryn Davies to the Pension Playpen coffee- mo(u)rners on Tuesday (12th Dec) As usual, we will be starting at 10.30am and you can join the event from http://www.pensionplaypen.com by … Continue reading
Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Nenagh
For this magnificent tribute. Dancing in Church seems right and proper For the great band and Glen Hansard For Lisa O’Neil and the noble Irish way she sings her part For heroes of my youth Shane McGowan, Bob Marley, … Continue reading
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Is the war on pension funding being “won badly”?
The PPF’s purple book for 2023 is out. The PPF tells us This publication tracks trends in DB scheme funding, demographics, asset allocation, and more. It also gives us, the PPF, an in-depth understanding of the risks we face from … Continue reading