I have written plenty about John Hamilton’s speech at Melton Mowbray, But it was not just John on stage at the PLSA East Midlands event. Preceding John was the PLSA’s CEO and I’m pleased he’s sent me his slides for publication and comment.
You can download these slides to your device using this link
It is clear that Mund speaks off the same page as Hamilton and vice versa and though Mund billed himself as the “warm up” he had much to say.
PLSA has been responding to the recent budget, working with Emma Reynolds and will now be working with Torsten Bell who will be speaking at the PLSA conference (March 11-13).
25 out of the 60 staff that PLSA employ are employed in research into policy.
It is hard to imagine a time more exciting for the PLSA than a week when both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor will be talking about putting our great pension schemes to work for the sake of the country.
Mund and Hamilton were actually warning up for Reeves and Starmer. As well as Torsten Bell, PLSA have close relationships with other ministers, ,mentioned at Mowbray was Jim McMahon who looks after the Local Government Pension Scheme mandate. We should not forget that the PLSA is key to the delivery of reform in that area and LGPS has a massive surplus to work with.
The PLSA were , claimed Mund, apolitical, putting pensions before politics. He mentioned relationships with previous ministers, we hear today Jeremy Hunt supporting Rachel Reeves and Starmer calling for investment. 100% invested and 100% secure could (Hamilton’s aspiration) could be Hamilton and Mund’s aspiration for our pension schemes, it is certainly cross-political as an end to be pursued.
Much is happening in PLSA, in London, four groups are merging into one. PLSA will move with the time making itself relevant on line. For all the need to consolidate, PLSA continues to offer a nationwide outreach to pension people wherever they are in the UK.
