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: September 2024
Why would most employers be bothered about pensions?
I spent some of the weekend writing a submission to the Treasury as evidence for its pension review. I had hoped to share it with you but once you’ve pressed send , your response seems to be gone forever, fine … Continue reading
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Down and out of financial services
Charles Randell has brought to our attention, work published by the FCA and carried out by volunteers keen for us to understand what happens if you aren’t in the financial services catchment zone – put another way – when you’re … Continue reading
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Bonkers headline of the year!
I read Corporate Adviser and have a great deal of time for its staff. I have a great deal of time for Standard Life. But if Standard Life and Corporate Adviser are to convince me that “people’s ideal retirement savings” … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, pension, Pension new
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How LGPS is providing venture capital to stop Britain flooding
What a fantastic piece of news to kick off the first week back at school. Over the summer, Rob Gardner- known to us as the founder of Redington and Mallowstreet and the man who turned around SJP as an investment … Continue reading
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Make more of what we have before taking more of what we haven’t!
I think Mike Harrison is right, hardly anyone is going to agree with me and the pension world over will agree with Mike. Not me! I think we should make more of what we’ve got before demanding more of what … Continue reading
XPS Xchange – can the consultancy make illiquids palatable to pension schemes?
It’s a good week to be thinking about illiquids. Many of us are beavering away providing evidence (for and against) , the Government’s plans to increase DC pension schemes exposure to illiquids. Nigel Wilson has just published CMIT’s “Capital Markets … Continue reading
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Can investment do the trick? Nigel Wilson’s study of the Capital Markets of tomorrow
I have spent the early hours of a Saturday morning reading and absorbing the excellent report from the Capital Markets Investment Task Force “Capital Markets of Tomorrow“. It’s prep for my writing a response to the Treasury’s call for evidence … Continue reading
Mrs Reeves -please restore the pension to our DC savings!
Fund managers no longer fund pensions I went to the Invesco “Summer” drinks last night, thanks Invesco – I think I was invited as a journalist and my role seemed to be to listen to fund managers tell me about … Continue reading
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Opperman gets to the heart of pension’s business of change,.
It’s rather fun to get the political inside track on something that really matters. On Tuesday, Guy Opperman gave us the inside track on why the Pensions Dashboard is being delivered 7 years after originally promised. why LTAFs are already … Continue reading
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Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing- a force for good or ill?
The idea of a dynamic pricing is nothing new to us in pensions. For instance the price we pay to exit a pension fund “swings” with the demand for sales on an individual day. If we are all running to … Continue reading
Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…