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: November 2025
Rethinking How We Fund Later-Life Care: Time for a UK “CareSaver”? – Alexandra Miles
This is good, really good and it is I hope , going to be read by those who control the spending on welfare in this country. Adult social care in the UK is under real pressure — underfunded, means-tested, fragmented. … Continue reading
Calandagan – the best horse in the world – wins the Japan cup this morning!
Here is Calandagan winning the Japan Cup. It is an amazing race I have nothing but praise for this wonderful horse who has done what no overseas horse has done in 20 years. Calandagan has won the Japan Cup and … Continue reading
Lord Snooty and Co push the freedom of leaseholders back years.
It is very sad that freeholder associations are holding up the passage of legislation that will make the ownership of residential leaseholds less stressful and more just. Here is what the Mail has got to say Freeholders are continuing their … Continue reading
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Generations of Brits troubled by tax cliff edges?
I can remember to being young and the alien world of tax. I am sure that there were people who were warning that young ambitious people like me could not cope with taxes as we faced in the last twenty … Continue reading
Time for Government to think bigger on Defined Benefit pension surpluses?
I was wondering , when pondering the OBR’s estimates for the taking of surplus out of defined benefit pension schemes why they only expected less than 1% of the money in DB surpluses to make its way into the hands … Continue reading
Media 1- parliament 0 ; democracy’s penalty o.g . in the last minute
Join here to continue next Tuesday 10.30 So how did the budget compare with your forecasts? Here is how the markets responded to the news – as broken by the OBR and then confirmed by the budget ( media 1 v … Continue reading
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The mill wheel that grinds the flour that makes the bread
I am pleased to read Ed Goodchild’s fine words on the dawning of the last weekend of autumn of 2025! I know his technology and I know how he applies himself to grow the businesses he servces. More pleased still … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, application, Ed Goodchild, Grow, growth, hard work, SME, Technology
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We shouldn’t have deficits , we shouldn’t have surpluses – we won’t with CDC!
The headline run by the FT out of the maligned OBR’s report on pension is that only £2.2bn of the £160bn surplus capital in UK DB pensions is going to be drawn down by companies from the occupational pensions they … Continue reading
The Greta Garbo Budget – a PP discussion next Tuesday
Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen Coffee Morning – The Greta Garbo Budget….A discussion! CPD included Type -Online When – Tuesday 2nd December 2025 at 10:30am You are cordially invited to attend our next Coffee Morning event. Following the Budget on Wednesday … Continue reading
Backbone of Britain: UK SMEs forgotten in the Autumn Budget- say accountants
I agree with this blog though it’s not by me. Lucy Cohen, founder of accountancy business Mazuma and President of the Association of Accounting Technicians, says the Autumn Budget has left SMEs out in the cold this winter. “Small businesses … Continue reading
Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…