Monthly Archives: September 2025
Virgin Media – what was all the pension fuss about?
There has been a lot of hot air expended and I fear a lot of money spent by trustees, scheme managers, lawyers and actuaries working out whether a DB pension scheme is invalidly changing things because it failed to do … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Actuarial certificate, contracting out, Pensions, Virgin Media
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How can we have new towns, good homes and afford it?
Con Keating and Thomas Aubrey are speaking on this this morning at 10.30 am and you can hear them discussing the document from the link here Click here to join at 10.30 September 30th (Today) This should be news if … Continue reading
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Tagged Afforable, Con Keating, New Homes, New Towns, Pensions, Thomas Aubrey
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Losing the argument for pensions with dynamic youngsters?
Pension Age’s Paige Perrin runs on some research from Hargreaves Lansdown (HL). Public sector households (58 per cent) are more likely than private sector households (42 per cent) to be on track for an adequate retirement income, research from Hargreaves … Continue reading
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Tagged Clare Stinton, Hargreaves Lansdown, LISA, Paige Perrin, Pension Age, Pensions
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Labour lobby v labour pension discussion; which would you go to?
It’s interesting to see the ways that two organisations take politics. I am talking about attending and presenting ideas at the Labour Party Conference and how the Social Market Foundation work with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries to get … Continue reading
New Towns Taskforce issued; – how it touches pensions (+ invite)
Con Keating and Thomas Aubrey are speaking on this tomorrow morning at 10.30 am and you can hear them discussing the document from the link below Click here to join at 10.30 on September 30th (Tuesday) The New Towns Taskforce … Continue reading
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The council tax-payer and their representatives want efficiency at LGPS
I am not dismayed that the money in pension schemes paid by council tax paid by the likes of you and me, are consolidating their fund management around 6 rather than 8 pools. I read this in the Financial Times … Continue reading
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Tagged Access, Active, Baillie Gifford, Brunel, Direct, Fund Manager, LGPS, Pensions, pools
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Aviva’s IGC; a good quality life company promoting itself through its IGC!
Aviva have delivered their IGC report and it’s a thorough piece of work. You can download it here or read it in full from this blog The marketing of these reports seems to depend on very relaxed executives in casual … Continue reading
Torsten Bell and Alexandra Miles; Social Market Foundation #Labour
Detail is scant but news is that Torsten spoke to a group at Labour Conference on Sunday , a group congregated to talk about pensions and including on a friend of this blog – Alexandra Miles. A little news has … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Miles, Labour, Lavour Party Conference, Liverpool, Pensions, Torsten Bell
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L&G IGC report – advanced tech but short on our VFM info!
I’m a policyholder with L&G and have just over £600,000 having taken over £180,000 this time last year to pay off my mortgage. The IGC is my means of understanding what is going on at L&G and I’m looking forward … Continue reading
Freezing the Italian state pension age for political reasons? Goodness!
The FT’s Amy Kazmin has provided us with an excellent analysis of the political issues surrounding the state pension age in Italy. We have a review of the state pension age in the UK and it is due to pronounce … Continue reading