Monthly Archives: January 2024
Pension PlayPen pension fraud special – the full details
This excellent video is a recording of yesterday’s Pension PlayPen coffee morning where Angie Brooks told us of her 15 year struggle to bring justice to the victims of the early pension liberation frauds and subsequent frauds using fraudulent funds … Continue reading
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Australians found selling half-built pensions; lessons for the UK?
If you think that everything in the Australian DC pension system is a bed of roses, read this description of how their Super pensions should work and then read Jim Hennington’s linked in post on how they are failing to … Continue reading
Superfunds laid to rest in the quietest graveyard
The DWP has a long list of duds, it has developed a capacity to convert a popular idea into a product that is singularly unloved. The list includes the DB pension, the CDC pension , the pension dashboard and … Continue reading
Angie Brooks subs for Margaret Snowdon @PP coffee morning -10.30 am
Margaret Snowdon has had a family bereavement and cannot make this morning’s coffee morning, we wish her well at a troubling time. Angela Brooks has agreed , at the shortest of notice, to step into Margaret’s shoes and talk with … Continue reading
DB funding regulations – intentionally right- substantially wrong
We have new DB funding regulations but the revised regulations are still a brake on the productive finance agenda. The Department for Work and Pensions has published revised defined benefit funding regulations today, and has responded to the consultation it launched … Continue reading
What FT readers really think about their DC pensions
Below are more comments from Claer Barrett’s insightful article on the damage de-risking did to the retirement prospects of one reader. You can read the article here, if you want to read it but have no subscription, mail me … Continue reading
Are any of our pensions really “guaranteed”?
This question came up over the weekend , as I was discussing with one of my colleagues whether a pension paid for life from a defined benefit pension was guaranteed. I am not arguing here as a lawyer, but as … Continue reading
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Musk, Truell and Buffett – investing with them – you haven’t gone far wrong
It’s a proper question being asked by Edi Truell and it’s a proper question being asked in the FT article by Stuart Kirk. Kirk is explicit While equity investors ignore bad governance when it suits them, the irony is they … Continue reading
Will we finally see the end of pension liberation tax persecution?
Thanks to Sue Flood for putting me on to the conversation between Paul Lewis and Russ Ferris- a victim of pension liberation fraud after leaving Royal Mail and now a firefighter being pursued by HMRC – 11 years after … Continue reading