We are 16, going on 17 (thousand users)
On Tuesday last week, posts on the AgeWage and Pension PlayPen linked in group were viewed over 11,000 times. The weekly total reads average 40,000 since the start of the year. The group is fast growing and is phenomenally active
Active members are those who visit the group; on average the group is visited more than once per member. Success breeds success, Linked In actively promote the group around the world to people interested in what the group is interested in.
Right now the group is interested in how pension schemes are distributing the returns they are making , the surpluses they are generating – how they are honouring promises made in the past.
But this is only one of a multitude of topics that passes across the group’s feed each day.
This is a self-monitoring group. I am the sole editor and administrator. If you don’t like the content , complain to henry@agewage.com or leave the group. I love the content and am grateful to everyone for sharing their thoughts. Only about a third of the posts submitted make it to the group, there’s a lot of spam (which I chuck) and some of the posts that get past me, shouldn’t. But relative to the usual clutter of self-regarding nonsense on the linked in feeds, I reckon the Group is a safe haven for sense and sensibility.
I am the most prolific contributor but last week my posts made up to only 3 of the top ten most read articles.
Which is why we have such a wide and interesting membership
To be fair to actuaries, they are not the least interesting , nor the least represented. What the other 83% of members do, is known to me but would take a very long blog to describe.
We have a lot of people who seem to be finding out about pensions who know nothing about pensions and they are as welcome as those I know personally.
Five things you might not know about the Group
Set up in 2009 , it was originally intended as a means for friends to do things together without being beholden to corporate hospitality
In its early days it organised a range of leisure activities, including days out at Cheltenham and other UK racecourses, boat trips and visits to the theatre.
Until the pandemic, the group had monthly lunches in the Counting House pub in Cornhill, on the week after the pension freedoms were announced, over 100 people turned up and we took over half the (huge) pub!
It is now an “active” linked in group, getting active promotion around the world – ensuring its continued growth.
No money changes hands for publication of any article. It is a forum for people to chat, connect and get things done.
AgeWage and The Pension PlayPen today
Pension PlayPen became a website to help SMEs to choose their workplace pension, when AE staging finished in the UK, I gave the site to Steve Goddard but remained non-exec chair, http://www.pensionplaypen.com is now a thriving online community in its own right, continuing the traditions of the group- by bringing people together in a real time.
AgeWage is the trading business that provides data analytics to savers and workplace pensions , enabling to see the value they are getting for the money they’ve invested. We’ve recently teemed up with Edi Truell and the Pension Superfund Capital to launch Pension SuperHaven which allows people to convert DC pots to DB pensions.
A secret success story
We don’t make any headlines, we don’t win any awards and we are disregarded as the influencer we are.
Our secret success is that we make no charge for what we do and we respect the rules of the group. The group is a pension super haven of productive learning and if you aren’t in it yet , here is where you can join.
This is all very well Henry but three posts a day! I can’t keep up.
How does this help the pension poor?