Category Archives: Pensions Regulator

The best audience I will have all year – thanks CIPP!

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

  Take a look at the audience above and you will see what I saw when I arrived to speak- not a single empty chair , everyone paying attention and a great gender mix. The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals … Continue reading →

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Can awards be rewarding? You bet they can!

Posted on October 10, 2019 by

My old firm, First Actuarial, didn’t do awards. They got grumpy when they got nominated (by me) and they made it official policy not to compete against their peers. You can see the sense in that, money spent on tables … Continue reading →

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TPR moves on climate change

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Keeping the world fit for its inhabitants is not something for other people to do, it is our job – all of our jobs. So it is entirely proper for the Pensions Regulator to make the sustainability of our planet’s … Continue reading →

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When naming and shaming had to stop

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

It now is clear there are not one but two firms that have been hit with a  £350,000 fine through escalating penalties from the Pensions Regulator and both relate to the non-payment of monies into staff pension accounts. These are … Continue reading →

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Towards a new pension funding code

Posted on May 13, 2019 by

  On Thursday, David Fairs, head of policy at the Pensions Regulator delivered a keynote speech to 200 or so delegates at the First Actuarial client conference. He did so a couple of hours after publishing a blog which has … Continue reading →

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CDC – a silver wage not a silver bullet

Posted on April 3, 2019 by

  Yesterday Ros (Baroness) Altmann hosted a webinar on retirement income which prompted some interesting follow up on social media. Here’s Mark Ormston of Retirement Line. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Ros Altmann on the ‘future of retirement income’ masterclass … Continue reading →

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“They’ve got Charles Counsell – he’s one of their own”

Posted on December 19, 2018 by

  As a kid I always preferred home-grown, beat the expensive imported stuff.  So it seems does the Pensions Regulator – who’ve eschewed the great and the good and gone for one of their own. Those of us who have … Continue reading →

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A “pension free” press?

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

I’m not surprised by news that the PPF has referred the pre-pack of Johnston Press to the Pensions Regulator. While reassuring members that such a referral doesn’t impact their rights to be in the lifeboat, PPF are asking whether the … Continue reading →

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The human cost of marking our pensions to the market

Posted on October 1, 2018 by

  The debate at the CSFI mid week between Norma Cohen and John Ralfe on one side and Jon Spain and Dennis Leech on the other – seems to have focussed on the economics of pensions. I’d like to widen … Continue reading →

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Shaking up pensions with Quietroom

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

Early this morning , I’ll be up the Farringdon Road with Quietroom, shaking up pensions. I’ve just looked at the agenda If we want to get folks fired up about pensions, we need to start doing things differently. That’s the … Continue reading →

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