"A couple might scrape together a combined private capital base of £240,000 provides only around £9,600 to £11,000 per year…
Aitken is most concerned with life insurers/assurers. Warren Buffett invested in non-life insurers for their distinctive economics, particularly the investment…
Agreed - though the contribution rates into private sector DB when we were accruing was often less than deficit payments…
my point is a simple one. Apart from DB pension provision in the U.K. is a disgrace Individual Median Pension…
Monthly Archives: December 2025
Richard Jones at Pension PlayPen today? Yes please!
How good it is to have someone I want to see , doing the promoting on his social feed! and then see it again? But you could stick with your local blog The meeting will be all the more pertinent … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Government, Nick Jones, pension playpen, Pensions, TPR
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The embarrassing lottery of the default “pension” pathway.
The analysis of what’s happening by default to people’s DC pots is from Peter Osthwaite and published in Professional Pensions. The four pathways devised by the FCA to lead people to retirement take people to very different places. For some … Continue reading
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Tagged Contract, default, FCA, Pathways, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions
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“No growth <—> No pensions”. John Hamilton; COT of Stagecoach Pensions
A statement from John Hamilton , Pension Scheme Chair at Stagecoach. A statement to a wider audience than the “pensions industry” This is the text of the document that John is socialising. Beyond the pension industry There has been a … Continue reading
TPR probes barriers to investment – a hat-trick of wins in a week.
I am pleased that TPR is changing its stance. The principles it has laid down are risk based but overly so . Trustees have complained that they live under a regime where they can be considered wreck less by TPR, … Continue reading
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Tagged hat-trick, Investment, Northern Foods, Pensions, Stagecoach, TPR
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Pension Bee’s campaigned for “pot transfers” since the days of Robin Hood
Pension Bee have for nearly 10 years fought the good fight for easier , cheaper and quicker pension pot transfers. Here is the latest version of what started life as the Robin Hood index! Ok – here it is! Broken … Continue reading
What journey’s best in the pension end-game?
I wanted this morning to explain a discussion that’s going on between experts about what has gone on between Stagecoach and Aberdeen over the Stagecoach pension trust. I couldn’t do that without explaining to a lot of people who think … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdeen, Bob Compton, Derek scott, Discussion, Edi Truell, Pensions, Stagecoach, Transfer
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A run through of pensions in the UK; for those who are confused!
This is not a blog about state pensions or the pensions paid to people in the public sector like the NHS and Teachers, it’s for all the people who depend on the private sector though many people currently in public … Continue reading
Good enough for a financier – good enough for a bus driver?
I am very interested by this article – coming from M&G and talking of Aberdeen’s recent take on of the Stagecoach £1.25bn Pension Scheme There is an interesting commentary on an asset manager that until recently was involved with an … Continue reading
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Ros Altmann in 2020 on the Pension Action Group’s progress to that date
It has been over 5 years since I published this blog on the Pensions Action Group. My blog is not worth a great deal of time and I enjoy it for a picture I took on the stripper’s beach in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Young, DB, Government, pension, ppf, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Great Britain – How We Get Our Future Back.
In a video from his speech on the Pension Schemes Bill, Duncan-Jordan urged using pooled pension funds for social housing, green technology, and divestment from fossil fuels and firms linked to human rights abuses. His Progressive Pensions campaign seeks amendments … Continue reading
The image of pension professionals putting on their stout boots to face the snow is a good reminder that preparation…