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: February 2025
Confused about dashboards? I am – and I worry for my friends
I got a comment on dashboards from one of my regulars. She’s not a pension person, she’s a finance person I’m sitting here working on scheme board papers as I’ve got two meetings this week and I’m looking at the … Continue reading
Can the LGPS please set out its funding position to ordinary tax-payers.
There is a row in Birmingham between some professors and the executive of Birmingham and it has been a matter for the Birmingham Post. I wrote about it earlier in the year and was sent the paper (which being in … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Joanne Donnelly, LGPS, pension, Pensions
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Right analysis+razor sharp solutions…needed by TPR
The last 7 days have had me listening for 3 hours to a former executive and the current Chair of TPR and I find myself deflated. Here is a former TPR worker on my comments about David Fairs last … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Haldane, Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement, Treasury
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What’s happening to L&G’s shares matters to our pensions
On Friday, the FT brooked a story which at first site is a bit obscure, concerning Japanese and American businesses. Legal & General has brokered a deal to sell its US insurance business to Japan’s Meiji Yasuda for $2.3bn in … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, AE reforms, annuity, Business, Employment, L&G, National Employment Savings Trust, Pensions
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David Fairs sees a brave new world of DC mega-funds.
David Fairs is on this week’s VFM podcast and like Sarah Smart he arrived with an agenda that related to pensions, this meant talking about the pension funding question that he’d wrestled with while at the Pensions Regulator and … Continue reading
What’s app n’ ing when you’re old and potty?
I’m shocked to find that later life has become such a complicated place. I am a simple person who wants to know what’s coming in in later life and what’s going out. I work around fixed income from wages and … Continue reading
Pension Oldie’s punky monkey party
Pension Oldie has been commenting on my blog . If I had an oldie’s party, he’d be my punky monkey. It is my strong belief that a very easy win for UK Economic growth would be a radical re-appraisal of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, Pension new, Pension Oldie, Pensions
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Hymans Robertson debating pension funding this Tuesday.
First the advert.. Tuesday 10.30 am event ; free ticket at the bottom of the blog. Having made a mistake and locked myself out of the excellent session led by Pensions for Purpose, I’m not going to do it twice! … Continue reading
What does Government being a pension disrupter mean for pensions ..?
“while we are working away, the world is speeding up” – Starmer at his cabinet meeting on growth. I like Starmer’s statement. Reading the BOE’s report feels like business as usual. The BoE’s latest forecast is that GDP will … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Business, CDC, dc pensions, DWP, Financial services, Government, Pensions
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Pensions – “An ideological inexactitude”
Eamonn is a good friend and will be known to many. He now has a string of good horses who race up and down the land. Ten years ago, he was arguing that pensions were heading for a new era … Continue reading
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Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…