Monthly Archives: January 2024
Sarah Smart and the awkward squad – Tuesday 10.30am
Tuesday’s Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning will see myself and TPR Chair Sarah Smart in conversation. What’s the biggest challenge for the Pensions Regulator in 2024? How’s the new mindset developing? Were you pleased with the General Code? … Continue reading
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The future for LTAFs looks grim.
Sales of LTAFs aren’t going well and this doesn’t bode well for both the Conservative and Labour party’s plans to put our long-term savings to work for the good of the country. This week we learn that sales of LTAFs … Continue reading
There’s no G in Fujitsu
It was not out of the goodness of his heart that Fujitsu’s European CEO Paul Patterson offered to pay compensation to those impacted by the Horizon scandal, it was out of fear, The greatest fear for CEOs is that their … Continue reading
App-less is hopeless! Put pensions at our fingertips!
One app for the rich – nowt for the poor! We all know that LifeSight is a very rich workplace pension. It houses the pension savings workers at Vodafone, Bupa and other spectacularly mindful employers have built up and … Continue reading
You get us into this mess.. potplicity’s the curse of the pension saver!
These are the big three things that people hate about “pensions” They don’t have a pension , they have many pensions They don’t just have many pensions , most pensions turn out to be pots The pots aren’t predictable, they … Continue reading
Open DB schemes poised for breakthrough surgery from tPR
Paul Maynard, pensions minister, says the Government had “always intended” for Open DB plans to have “flexibility” and was “aware that this may not have been clear in the draft Regulations that were consulted on”. — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) January … Continue reading
From the widow’s tale to AI – selling life and death insurance!
Insurance salesmen of a certain vintage were taught to tell the widow’s tale to put the man of the house in mind of his responsibility to insure his life against the possibility of his early demise. I sold insurance using … Continue reading
Port Talbot needs a plan B
I’m not going to try and to compete with the BBC, Its reporting on the announcement that the blast furnaces at Port Talbot will be closing and 3000 jobs will be lost at Tata Steel, is magnificent. Give this a … Continue reading
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Pensions Minister agrees to look into BP issue.
In a Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall this week, Alistair Carmichael, MP (Orkney & Shetland) told UK Pension’s Minister Paul Maynard that BP appeared to be “dealing from the bottom of the deck” when it came to pension decisions … Continue reading
Say hello, say goodbye; January’s pension re-shuffle
January has been a month of significant change at the Pensions Regulator, MaPS and the PPF. Fiona Frobisher returns to the PPF from the DWP while Gary Miller returns from MaPS MaPs has moved to Bedford, the Pensions Dashboard has … Continue reading
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