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: February 2026
What will AI do to blogging? Or should the question be the other way round?
Last week my blogs saw more reads of my posts than any week since 2009 when this blog started. I cannot say why but I can say that there was a lot of reading from the USA which looks like … Continue reading
Rulers, Rules & Ruining Retirement – tomorrow’s Guiided Coffee morning
Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen You are cordially invited to attend our next online Coffee Morning tomorrow. “The rule makers are ruining our retirements” was Tom McPhail’s slight bluster in the Times last week, reposted with commentary from Philip Hodges of … Continue reading
People should be rewarded for paying to their pension when on Universal Credit
Steve’s problem this week is about what personal pension contributions mean to your Universal Credit, (assuming you are getting UC and paying PP.) This is from the Daily Mail. Here’s the problem posed to Steve I’m writing to let you … Continue reading
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Just- Defined Benefit Solutions – Andy Smith’s update for 2026
Just may not be in the bonanza for ever, but that does not mean they will suffer! Just’s story reminds me of the huge take on of DB transfer business in the later years of quantitative easing when low yields … Continue reading
Just, L&G, Aviva, USS and Hymans write to Reeves explaining how to finance UK growth
Keating and Aubrey told us how gilts could not do the job. Last September Thomas Aubrey and Con Keating highlighted the inanity of the Government’s plan to finance with gilts the growth needed for new towns and growth that is … Continue reading
Robin Ellison speaks for me on the VFM “masterpiece of dross”.
A couple of weeks back , Kim Gubler pointed out that a perfectly good system for measuring the value people get for their pension money exists. It is offered by AgeWage that allows people can see how their pension money … Continue reading
China wants it – like California; let’s own our technology in our pensions!
During the week, I had lunch with Will Hutton at the RSA Coffee House. It was a strenuous meal where the calories absorbed were burned off in our determination to out-gesticulate each other! We discussed British pensions from Stakeholder … Continue reading
The impact of Emma Rampton on Cambridge University’s Endowment.
Emma Rampton became Registrary in 2017. The office of Registrary was created in 1506 and Emma Rampton was the 27th person – and first woman – to hold it. The Registrary is the University’s principal administrative officer, head of the … Continue reading
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Claire Altman of Standard Life – serious about VFM as delivering pensions!
This week’s VFM podcast did not go as expected for Nico and Darren as it featured Claire Altmann as Standard Life’s Managing Director: BPA & Individual Retirement I have a very high regard for Claire. She is familiarly Clara and … Continue reading
BP does not stand for Broken Promises or Bad Pensions.
I have been following the debates on DB pensions in the House of Lords and know that there is anger with failures of Pensions, to meet their promises when they have the means to do so. On Wednesday I spent … Continue reading
Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…