Monthly Archives: May 2025

The country gives a yellow card to Labour – pension people should listen.

There is a side of a football crowd that turns on a champion team when it minces about and delivers nothing. Man City fans may feel that way this season, long suffering Labour supporters or converts after 15 years of … Continue reading

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Most employers have never provided pensions for their staff.

One of the old lags contacted this morning with this thought. As you know I start from a different angle and premise – that most employers have never provided pensions for their employees. Even in the hay day of DB … Continue reading

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Torsten, here’s a group wanting change – can we help you?

I have been quiet over the past few weeks following surgery and complications that leave me unable to do what my body promised me! I have a tap to pee, I thought it appropriate for a Tapper, Pullinger thought it … Continue reading

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Pension Reform – a mantle of change Labour gets out – or else!

If I was Torsten Bell, rather than feeling smug about my speech at the LCP conference in London, I’d be reading the reports of Labour losing way to Nigel Farage and Reform I’d not be worried about the loss of … Continue reading

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Hymans Robinson untap pensions potential!

  An epic of the Pension PlayPen where Calum and Paul of Hymans Robertson shows a group of 40 committed pension lovers what they have! Here’s the Link to full report: untapped-potential-of-pensions.pdf More to follow by way of collateral/

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Playing the second half of the pension game with “defaults”

“Making sure more employers and savers have the option of an innovative CDC pension scheme is an important part of making that happen.” It would be easy for an enthusiast like Henry Tapper to argue for a CDC future , … Continue reading

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“Collective pensions to deliver higher income and lower risks in future” – Bell

  The Government has not made a major statement on policy since Edinburgh (PLSA) in early March. Yesterday he delivered his intentions to those at the LCP Conference and delivered the import of Torsten Bell in a statement In bold … Continue reading

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