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: June 2025
Are insurers really that safe? Toby Nangle joins the “worrywarts”
Somewhere , deep into an examination of how insurance companies operate in the US and to a degree in Europe and hence the UK, is this paragraph All that said, we can see why regulators and worrywart investors are taking … Continue reading
Hymans, proper process and bright young women meet us next Tuesday
Pension PlayPen has been pretty good at keeping the tone refined and in line with the Government’s wish that pensions focus on investment and strategy. I can announce that this Tuesday we will be focussing on good process and its … Continue reading
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A great way to get VFM measured by savers spending their pots
Pete(r) Osborne of Dean Wetton thinks about what people in retirement want, not what suits the market. Here are excerpts from what he has written for Professional Pensions, you can read the whole article uninterrupted here. What happens below is … Continue reading
A ten year infrastructure strategy…or financial engineering?
A 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy? Or financial engineering to reboot PFI with limited impact? Thomas Aubrey & Con Keating When any new government strategy is published, it’s easy to be bamboozled by the government’s good intentions to fix things … Continue reading
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The Pension Blunders of our Government – a note from Andy Young
I tread carefully as I have never published Andy Young’s responses to my blogs before. We have an agreement which I am trying out this morning , that I become his editor. I pray I am doing the right thing … Continue reading
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PRAG consults on refreshed accounting standards for pensions
The Pensions Research Accountants Group (PRAG) has published proposed amendments to the statement of recommended practice (SORP) on the financial reports of pension schemes. I was approached yesterday by Con Keating demanding that I give this prominence on this blog … Continue reading
Springsteen makes a birthday for me and my friend!
Our household is a Springsteen household and it is about to get a seven CD delivery of great music from the Boss himself! That’s what’s being released on the 27th May. ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’ are seven unheard Bruce … Continue reading
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USS and Nest coming to the same solution for pensions.
USS is a major force in Britain’s delivery of pension. It has stayed open despite threats to it in the last decade and it is now thriving again. Instead of sitting back on its new found solvency it is looking … Continue reading
The privilege of wealth is free to everyone through pensions!
The headline in today’s FT reminds me that I will be seeing Toby Nangle speak again at lunchtime. Toby now writes for the FT and he understands better than anyone (but Ludovic Phallipou ) what a waste of money most … Continue reading
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Not mandation – just incentivisation (with tax)- Altmann
Ros Altmann had a cracking go at us the pension playpen and here’s how it went. No holds held with some extraordinary tussles with Tom McPhail, a Rosalind two-step and some very intense conversation in the chat box. This is … 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…