I think the fundamental problem is not involving the employer in the retirement income consideration. Instead they are often seen…
There may be more fundamental issues with the US markets. In a recent article Smithers is highly critical of the 2013…
A very timely and important message to all employers and employee benefit consultants, whatever the size of the employer! In…
It seems to me that a pensions think tank, funded by pension industry stakeholders, will naturally scope the question as…
Monthly Archives: October 2025
A big question of Commonwealth emerges in our pension investment
The FT examines the empathy between Canada and British investment of pension schemes. In an article this morning with London’s Mary McDougall and Ilya Gridneff in Toronto Like the UK, Canada has been examining how to channel more pension assets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Business, Canada, Commonwealth, DWP, Financial services, ft, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, USA
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Patrick Heath-Lay calls for simplicity – for his 7 million savers.
AgeWage has been a lonely beacon bleeping a signal of tsunamis over the past 8 years. The warning is that the billions of money building up in workplace pensions is not assessed by trustees, employers or members for the value … Continue reading
Dashboard – don’t keep me waiting!
Richard Smith’s never far from this blog’s beating pulse. This morning a link to this remarkable post on linked in , arrived in my WhatsApp queue. I haven’t kept it waiting, Thanks Richard and thanks to everyone who seems to … Continue reading
“The first major accounting update in at least 500 years” – Andrew Watson
Taxonomy of Intangibles – Rethinking Capital After a couple of weeks thinking about consumer issues, we are moving towards a more institutional discussion next Tuesday at the Pension PlayPen. Join this meeting here We are delighted that Andrew Watson, will … Continue reading
Pensions transfers need to cost under £10 for the “small pot carousel”
The current pensions transfer system isn’t working, is too expensive, and requires providers working together to speed up the process, Smart Pension CEO, Jamie Fiveash, has stated, suggesting that the cost of a pension transfer needs to be cut to … Continue reading
Work Pensions do deals NOW in UK private markets (not just offer LTAFs).
While the ABI hurried out a paper I wrote about over the weekend saying insurers had invested next to nothing (0.24% of £268bn) in retail workplace pensions (around £650m), institutional investment is a different matter for organisations seeing investment as … Continue reading
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Tagged Housing, Infrastructure, L&G, LTAF, LTAFs, NEST, workplace
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Tom McPhail and Robin Ellison ; time for a regulatory rethink? We think so.
Pension Oldie has read Tom McPhail on Regulation; A pensions commission has been tasked with reviewing the adequacy of our pensions but bizarrely the terms of reference say nothing about the way the pension system is regulated. Pension Oldie’s response … Continue reading
ABI’s insurers invested only 0.24% of workplace pensions in Compact assets last year
The ABI have given the market an update of the progress of insurers in the investment of their workplace pensions. This is not quite the good news we might have been expecting. This from the Progress Update the ABI has … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Compact, Mansion House, Markets, Pensions, Private Equity, trackers
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DB, DC, CDC? Just “pensions” – judged by VFM
It is interesting to hear comments on the Pension UK Conference from Nico Aspinall and Darren Philp I was aware that Nico was at the Conference but unaware of “the fringe” that Darren was at. To me, the Conference was … Continue reading
Tom McPhail questions the value for money from our pension regulation
We would all enjoy eating sausages a bit less, so the story goes, if we could see what goes into them. Well, you’d probably feel the same way about pension regulation if you could see how much it is costing … Continue reading
That £4 figure may be defensible as an illustration of the combined benefits of pension saving, employer contributions, tax relief…