Monthly Archives: January 2026
Why you can’t understand old age finance so well without Tony’s help
I could not understand the problems older people have so well , had I not Tony Watt’s daily round up of blogs and information that arrives in my email. Here is today’s and (more importantly) here is the subscription link … Continue reading
20 top FT columnists s share “what we wish we’d been taught at school”
I’m pleased to have the FT share some of its best consumer stuff this morning (the first business morning of the year). You can read the article as shared by Claer Barrett here
Posted in pensions
Leave a comment
The FCA – less messing about – more action
In 2024 it announced 41 enforcement actions, and in the 2025 calendar year there were 33, both above its historic annual average of between 20 and 25. “We are conducting fewer investigations, faster,” Therese Chambers (one of two enforcement directors) … Continue reading
2026 New Years Honours for those thanked by pensioners/taxpayers etc!
Who do you know on this list? If you are brave enough, you can find out from the 148 pages who has been awarded an honour. You can download it here Or you can wait to find out as the … Continue reading
Who needs fireworks when the sun does it for you? #HNY
This was sunrise on Wednesday 31st December 2025. The sun rose as if out of the sea at Poole. Rising from the east. It had been predicted by a lovely sight a few minutes earlier like a prophet announcing the … Continue reading
Do YOU have a fantasy amendment for the Pension Schemes Bill? Send in your thoughts!
We are entering a fallow period for work and you may be looking for something meaningful to do between now and Monday January 5th when we start again in earnest. The last pension act followed considerable public disorder, the photo … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Opperman, parliament, Pension schemes Act, Pensions, Ros Altmann, Torsten Bell
Leave a comment
We want a millennial not a wibbly-wobbly dashboard , 25 years on!
Wow! The millennium bridge was opened to the public all at once (me,my mum and 2 year old son were there on the day). Nobody had worked out what would happen if they went on the bridge at the same … Continue reading
One thing got my goat on this. “Redirecting DB assets to DC”….
My email’s contain a number of interesting missives. Here’s one I will post anony-mouse -ly. The mailer will probably be cross with me for compromising him/her – if you were at the said event, maybe you remember! I wasn’t. One … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged advice, Business and Economy, dc pensions, Government, Insurance, pension, Pensions, politics, Retirement
3 Comments
DC VFM = the value of pension for the money saved.
I think the scale program instigated by Government to get DC plans “valuable” is the wrong measure. I’d like to say why. Government can achieve its aim of VFM for DC schemes better. Government needs to start thinking of VFM … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged advice, AgeWage, auto enrolment, corporate risk, DWP, Financial services, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, TPR
2 Comments