When only 8 to 15 mega-trusts dominate the entire defined contribution (DC) and LGPS landscape, peer-group risk may override manager…
This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…
Here's another way for a pension fund to get in the soup. https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal.html
I had earlier today read a medical research article reporting on a Japanese study that found that “supercentenarians” — those…
Monthly Archives: August 2024
We need some value for pensions too!
“Money and pensions” have an interesting relationship. Of course a pension is just money paid to you over time and its financial value really depends on how long we live. Where the pension is paid from a pot, it is … Continue reading
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Time for some “hard-working” on VFM – says TPR.
There’s a telling sentence in Nina Blackett’s blog on VFM , published yesterday by TPR In January 2023, we published our joint industry consultation on a value for money (VFM) framework. Now, the FCA, working with TPR and DWP, has … Continue reading
Oasis eat your heart out- Nick Lowe’s playing the Palladium
I’m writing on the last day of Summer, tomorrow will be September. Hundreds of thousands of us will spend the morning of the last day of summer punching and swiping their connected devices in the hope that one of them … Continue reading
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Opperman to reveal all on horses, children and pensions next Tuesday!
It’s good to see that my Sycamore Tree Hugging friend Guy Opperman has agreed to have a chat with me next Tuesday at the next Pension PlayPen coffee morning. Until the end of June, Guy was Minister for Transport and … Continue reading
Standard Life and Dalriada offer a port in the storm.
Well done Dalriada and Standard Life for setting up a “safe haven” for those who’ve been scammed out of their pension savings. What’s left – after the scammers, lawyers and advisers have had their cut deserves a safe haven and … Continue reading
From rose garden to beer garden (freedoms- pensions and otherwise)
The Rose Garden speech of Kier Starmer introduced the concept of financial pain in October. Part of this pain may be about restrictions in the flexibility with which we can withdraw our pensions (without the pain of sharing with the … Continue reading
“Sweet Thames flow softly” – a proposal to smooth troubled waters
Like the Thames itself, Thames Water is not going away and the long-running saga between Ofwat, championing the consumer and the Company, struggling to deliver its five year business plan continues to play out- like a railway dispute. Thames’ customers … Continue reading
Should the Treasury issue bonds to pay pensions?
Arun Muralidhar’s excellent presentation to the Pension PlayPen is up and for those who are time challenged on a Tuesday Morning, here is a chance to watch it again. Thanks to all who participated in an important debate/
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Goodbye and good luck to the LGPS as we know it
Chris Buss: goodbye to the LGPS as we know it? Chris’s blog is an excellent rearguard action by the conservative wing of the LGPS. I suspect that the majority of service providers to and officers of the LGPS would agree … Continue reading
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“Decisive Trustees?” – times certainly are a changing!
I was struck when reading the findings of TPT Retirement Solutions’ trustee survey by two things. Firstly, how different they are from survey findings a year or 19 months ago; secondly how DB “endgame solutions” are extending the duration of … Continue reading
Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…