This sounds good fun – if only for the elite! The great and good brought together by yet another global organisation to raise the profile of DC. You can read all about the purpose of the event and the kind of organisations behind it here.

We used to have the Gleneagles Conference that the elite aspired to get an invite to , but the thirst for that kind of thing outlives any beano. So here goes Gleneagles II.

This comes out of Washington, not everything in Washington is to our taste and what it or the Aspen institute mean to anyone in Britain is beyond me.

It’s good to see top thinkers talking things out between themselves and not so good to have the event publicised without an attempt to tell us what progress had been made.

A lot of folk would like to talk with and listen to senior figures in the pensions industry, including our pensions minister.

I am sure that I am not the only person wondering what an elite, hosted by the CEO of People’s Pension are doing to help the 20 million pension savers!

If the discussions that were had at this conference could be shared, even anonymised to meet the Chatham House Rule, then some of the subjects alluded to by Patrick could mean something to those of us not included.

As it is , we are left out of any of the “visions” reserved for the great and good – whoever they currently are.

I hope that our Labour Pension Minister will remember he stands for the people not the pension elite; he should be more careful to be advertised as a trophy.