Monthly Archives: May 2025
PRA promotion of Bulk Purchase Annuity; DWP promoting pensions
This blog demonstrates the two parties promoting two quite different propositions to pay retirement income from DB pensions. In the first part of this blog I quote Charlie Finch of LCP and give access to a speech by the PRA … Continue reading
Reeves isn’t desperate. Mr Stride- Britain wants to grow!
Mel Stride is having a go at Rachel. Mel is well known to pension people. He was DWP Minister when Guy Opperman was Pension Minister and he’s stayed on to be shadow chancellor of exchequer. This is what he has … Continue reading
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Please pay a reliable pension and allow us to choose to spend or save it!
Professionally I am interested the wage feel is coming in when age changes their lives. That is why I called my company AgeWage though I have a less serious company called Pension PlayPen which considers while messing around, what can … Continue reading
Government as one with WPC on the future of DB (pt 2)
This is the second of my reviews of the Government’s response to the report below,the WPC’s authors are listed in this photo The Work and Pension Select Committee have published a report on DB pensions which is the first under … Continue reading
Interesting for trustees and super trustees; WPC and Govt agree (pt 3)
This is the third of my reviews of the Government’s response to the report below. I’ve got as far as recommendation 10 without finding one which bored me but here (later in the response) I find some of the … Continue reading
WPC “DB Report” picked up by Govt with shared view (pt 1)
The Work and Pension Select Committee have published a report on DB pensions which is the first under a Labour Government. Here it is to read and here is the link. There is plenty in the Pension Minister’s foreword that … Continue reading
Companies need open banking – not LGPS – to offer staff pensions.
Those who read this blog may be supplemented this weekend by people who enjoy fire and brimstone for here is Jnamdoc opening his heart on the need for a pension system that provides pensions to everyone. This is a comment … Continue reading
The country gives a yellow card to Labour – pension people should listen.
There is a side of a football crowd that turns on a champion team when it minces about and delivers nothing. Man City fans may feel that way this season, long suffering Labour supporters or converts after 15 years of … Continue reading
Most employers have never provided pensions for their staff.
One of the old lags contacted this morning with this thought. As you know I start from a different angle and premise – that most employers have never provided pensions for their employees. Even in the hay day of DB … Continue reading
Torsten, here’s a group wanting change – can we help you?
I have been quiet over the past few weeks following surgery and complications that leave me unable to do what my body promised me! I have a tap to pee, I thought it appropriate for a Tapper, Pullinger thought it … Continue reading