John Hamilton will be presenting to our Pension PlayPen coffee morning crowd and you could be one of them. We have a record attendance to break and I suspect John will come close!

You can find a link to next Tuesday’s (16th) coffee mornings here.

Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen Coffee Morning- In conversation with Stagecoach’s John Hamilton  CPD included Type – Online When – Tuesday 16th December 2025 at 10:30am You are cordially invited to attend our next Coffee Morning event. Following the announcement of Stagecoach’s deal with ABRDN we are delighted that Stagecoach’s Pension Scheme Chair and Group Pensions Manager, John Hamilton, will be joining us for an “Audience with”. As a welcome addition to Punter Southall’s Richard Jones’s DB Surplus session at our last event this will be a great opportunity to ask John about the deal, how it will work, the view and role of the Pensions Regulator and the risks for the Scheme Trustees? Also how will it affect Scheme members and what did the unions think?. With over £1.2Bn in assets the Stagecoach deal appears to be an ingenious way of working with the sponsor to protect members and reduce sponsor risk. What are the risks for ABRDN? To REGISTER For paying members please click ATTENDING Here For non paying members please add to your calendar and click HERE or on the link below on the day. John Hamilton is Pension Scheme Chair and Group Pensions Manager at Stagecoach where he has worked for over 27 years. We hope you can join. Platform MicrosoftTeams Url https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzcxMzYwMmQtMTQ5Zi00M2NmLWEwMDEtMDk4MGQ2YmJhZmEz%40th Regards, Pension Playpen

Here are some recently presented slides.

If you want your own copy, you can download the slides on this link

I will be posting the link to the coffee morning meeting later and hope that we have a way forward for schemes like Stagecoach who want to run on and to do so with either capital backing or the backing of a financially confident employer like Aberdeen.

The call for John to come to this meeting on Tuesday 16th, was made at Tuesday’s meeting where Richard Jones was speaking. I had no doubt that John Hamilton would seize the opportunity if he could. He could!

I want John Hamilton to explain  how he wants – as ongoing Chair of Trustees of Stagecoach – to embrace “innovation, growth”, in finding his purpose.

There are questions asked in this week’s coffee morning which we have shared with John Hamilton with this video. Go to minute 2o minutes for the section where Richard turns to Stagecoach and those at the Coffee Morning ask questions that John will be able to address next Tuesday.

We hope you enjoy it; the debate is an historic document marking the progress we are making.

Yes videos as well as slide decks can be deemed documents!

I am sorry I made no contribution, other than to announce this “document” at the end. I spent a little time with my neurologist who was evaluating my little grey matter.

The work with Aberdeen is some of the most interesting in the DB “endgame” and I hope that before long we can get a spokesperson from Aberdeen to join us. We have one more slot this year