Category Archives: leadership

Association of Pension Lawyers dubious about tPR’s DB funding code

Posted on September 15, 2020 by

      Editor’s note Apologies to the APL and to readers for the poor reproduction of Rosalind Connor’s letter. This is due to the shortcomings of my PDF reading rather than a failure of the APL to correctly format … Continue reading →

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Investing in the right place

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

I am very pleased to hear about a new project designed to get pension schemes investing in the right place. You can read about it here It’s an initiative that impacts us all, we all pay council tax or at … Continue reading →

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Payroll into battle!

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

  April 20th 2020 will live long in the memories of payroll. The Furlough has begun! Here is Barry Matthews – payroll enthusiast and BDD of PayCircle and his call to arms! Monday morning 20th April 2020, payroll teams across … Continue reading →

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Legal & General – recovering

Posted on April 10, 2020 by

I wasn’t good at learning on management courses, but I did once write down and remember this list Acknowledge your mistakes. Never try to cover up or blame others for what went wrong. … Learn from your mistakes. Once you learn from your mistakes, don’t repeat them. … Continue reading →

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Let’s play nicely!

Posted on December 22, 2019 by

  This is a most unusual blog as it starts with an apology – an apology to John Ralfe . It is also an apology to any of the people who were offended by my early morning rant at John. … Continue reading →

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12/12/19 #OKboomer v #snowflakegeneration

Posted on December 15, 2019 by

The most coherent research I have seen coming out of the voting patterns of last Thursday is this. While support for Liberals is consistent over ages, the vote for the binary propositions of conservative and labour governments is highly dependent … Continue reading →

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Employer’s duty to provide information to employees about pensions.

Posted on August 22, 2017 by

“where an employee has an important decision to make which has material financial implications the safest course of action for an employer is to provide the individual with all of the information that they need in order to make an … Continue reading →

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What can men do to reduce gender pay inequality?

Posted on July 24, 2017 by

For a start they can stop “welcoming this discussion” and blathering other related clichés! If men welcomed a serious discussion on gender pay equality, we’d have been having them regularly since equal pay for both gender (for the same job) became … Continue reading →

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Paying for other people’s pensions

Posted on December 22, 2015 by

I’ve said it before on this blog, but I’ll say it again. The amount of Council Tax many people pay to fund other people’s pensions exceeds their own contributions into pensions, even when they’ve been auto-enrolled into “workie”.   “You … Continue reading →

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Can the pension insurers win back their customers’ respect?

Posted on December 8, 2015 by

IGCs are ours to use and not the insurers to castrate. Continue reading →

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