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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Arun Muralidhar speaks on British pensions (10.30 am- details here)
Arun Muralidhar will be talking with us today (Tuesday 10th June) and if you want to be part of the Pension PlayPen – read on. I spent a good after-lunch drinking tea with this man who is too little known … Continue reading
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Pension Security Alliance – DISGRACE on you.
The disgraceful lobbying of insurers PIC and Just to keep the current threshold for partial withdrawals by employers continues. They continue to send out press releases under the Pension Security Alliance to distress those running DB pension schemes into offloading … Continue reading
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Reeves – winter fuel and the politicisation of older age finance
There is a press release outlining the restoration, find it here £200 a year for the “young old”, £300 a year for those over 80, everyone over 66 will benefit from the u-turn except those who have income of more … Continue reading
The Impact Assessment behind the Pension Schemes Bill.
This diagram, borrowed from HMT by DWP is around 300 pates in. It is frustrating and fascinating because much is good but how to get to it?! Welcome to the Impact Assessment This document from the DWP is over 400 … Continue reading
Would our Pension funds find UK equities easier – if our firms listed here?
This photo is of Paternoster Square taken from above St Paul’s Cathedral with the London Stock Exchange on the far side of an odd column with a pineapple on the top. Next door to LSE is my nearest Sainsburys, my … Continue reading
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Who’s going to make it to mega-fund? The writing’s on the wall for all but a few.
Parliament has published for MPs and those in the upper house a document “Explanatory Notes” that explains the Pension Schemes Bill 2025. You can download it here. It is interesting to see where the emphasis of the explanation is. There … Continue reading
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Should Jeremy Hunt switch to Labour?
My copy of “Great Britain?” is holding up well, I don’t think we need be a “stagnation nation”, we can move on Jeremy Hunt has been on Newscast and this morning on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. It wasn’t just the … Continue reading
Superfunds – still no “route map to profit”.
This brilliant exegesis of the Pension Schemes Bill’s proposal to make superfunds work. Superfund seems now to be defined as any capital backing for a pension. As an appendix, here is the Government’s Investment Assessment analysis of “profit” for superfunds. … Continue reading
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The PMI conference and a wall of VFM podcasts!
I am impressed by the podcast productivity going on from the VFM team. They have been given an opportunity to interview people at the PMI and they give us their view on the Pension Investment Review. I’m not quite sure … Continue reading
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Employer’s DB “money-back” will be slow and 5% of the surplus.
In case the Pension Security Alliance (aka Just and PIC insurers and John Ralfe) are still worrying you, here is the proposal from the Government of the Pension Schemes Bill , as Mary McDougall explains out in her article. Only … Continue reading
But why is the system still thinking of Collective DB pensions in terms of annuities when the benefits are defined…