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…
The simple truth is that the pension system is very good at taking your money, and may or may not…
That is a good point about the ordinary person/voter due to being too poor to get interested in political donations.…
Monthly Archives: July 2025
A blog from 2016 – which is as relevant to Nest today as it was 9 years ago
This is a re blog of an account of Nest at one of the first PLSA (rather than NAPF) conferences. If you weren’t in Liverpool for last week’s PLSA conference, do not slit your wrists. You can watch the sessions … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Drawdown, ft, josephine cumbo, NEST, Otto Thorsen, PLSA, the Pensins Regulator
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Paul Todd will explain Nest’s new “pension” – after a Pension Schemes Act.
Paul’s talking at a Pension PlayPen coffee morning on Tuesday. Paul is COO of Nest and well known to many of us for a biography of Paul is at the bottom of the blog. It is an important talk and … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Conditional Indexation, decumulation, NEST, Paul Todd, pension
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Mental breakdown from pension drawdown? Would you be in danger?
We are all afraid of change. Most of us work all our working lives and don’t feel comfortable on having to make big decisions about money like “spend, spend, spend”, Robin Powell, on another blog I publish this morning, asks … Continue reading
I’m confused why £4£ is so hard – it’s what we’ve done for years!
This is a comment from People’s CEU, Patrick Heath-Lay of his initiative 4£4 – a way of measuring VFM. You can read the whole statement here. It’s become increasingly clear that the issue Value for Money is going to be … Continue reading
Robin Powell explains the difference between financial planning and advice
It was a pleasure to see Robin blogging on the AgeWage and Pension PlayPen linked in group. Robin and I have long been friends and though we work in different areas of financial services and support folk with differing needs, … Continue reading
We need IPOs and cash buyers not just continuation funds for private assets!
The FT is good in explaining this point – one that appeals to my common sense. If you are selling companies to a fund you control, it is you not others who decides what the company is worth. How long … Continue reading
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Tagged Continuation fund, Fund, fund of funds, IPO, Private Equity
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This is what European victory meant to our girls!
This is what European football means to young English fans If you were one of them I admire you – what fun – what joy and what a final awaits you! You can watch the headline moments on BBC sport … Continue reading
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Jon Spain;- tough talk from a veteran actuary
Jon gave a tough talk both in terms of what he had to say and how he said it. It was uncompromising in actuarial integrity. Thee are both at the end and beginning of this video thoughts of the less … Continue reading
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SHOCK NEWS- Pension your pot and save IHT!
WRONG – People pay Inheritance Tax on Pots not PENSIONS! Let’s get this right, pensions are paid as long as you live and cease when you die. From 2027 you can opt out of getting a pension pension to have … Continue reading
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Pi Partnership look at progress in turning pots to pensions
I did not expect to see Pi Partnerships ploughing new ground, but three weeks after the Pension Schemes Bill called for decumulation defaults (pensions to the common person) , we have a report on the progress of 12 of the … Continue reading
This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…